31. Besides, what medication can a doctor prescribe but not also administer? 32. Both involved patients dying from cancer or AIDS who said they wanted their doctors to prescribe lethal drugs so they could kill themselves if their suffering became unbearable. 33. A doctor prescribed some cough medicine fairly dripping with codeine. 34. A doctor then prescribed morphine patches, which gave her some relief. 35. A large number of prescriptions does not necessarily mean that doctors are improperly prescribing a drug, the company added. 36. A team of Massachusetts General Hospital researchers has found that advertising may influence the choice of hypertension drugs that doctors prescribe for their patients. 37. Although doctors may prescribe medications to help suppress symptoms of vertigo, such medications, including Antivert and Dramamine, have their own side effects, including drowsiness. 38. But because doctors may legally prescribe any approved drug for any purpose, some are using it to treat women suffering repeated pregnancy loss. 39. But at that time, employers and their insurance companies generally paid for most services a worker sought and a doctor prescribed, with few cost controls. 40. But because of the bleeding, the doctors could not prescribe adequate amounts of anti-coagulant drugs to prevent formation of blood clots in the device. |
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