1.   Her doctor just prescribed more pills and told her to take it easy.

2.   The pill is prescribed by a doctor.

3.   Contraception is only one of several reasons physicians prescribe the pill, says Dr. Luis Morales of Miami Valley Hospital.

4.   Critics fear doctors at some centers will be pressured to prescribe the pills to people who simply want to drop a few pounds before swimsuit season.

5.   Dr. Ben Z. Krentzman, a family practitioner, said he had come out of retirement last year to prescribe the pills.

6.   Getting the pain pills prescribed for the first few weeks was a hassle.

7.   Imagine the likelihood of insisting there be a national registry for doctors who prescribe a pill for erectile dysfunction.

8.   It made Page One in the student paper The Lariat recently when presumably for the first time student health services were prescribing the pill, or acknowledging it.

9.   Normally, a doctor would not prescribe pills to this woman, because of an increased incidence of heart attacks.

10.   Still, the mere idea of being hired by a commercial weight loss center to prescribe diet pills is anathema to many doctors.