All else being equal, doctors make much more money by prescribing more expensive drugs.
Doctors in the Netherlands were allowed to start prescribing medicinal cannabis to patients in 2003.
Worries that these medicines actually harm patients when overused have caused doctors to cut prescribing them.
Professor Thomson said doctors who treat asthmatics should consider prescribing them other drugs if they smoke.
But he may come on board if you explain the financial ramifications of his prescribing.
It would be hard to justify prescribing Vytorin in the face of well established generic statins.
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The American Medical Association takes a strong stance against doctors prescribing placebos without a patient's knowledge.
Nurse-prescribing pilot schemes have been up and running in some parts of the country already.
Zetia itself has become a blockbuster, and some doctors are prescribing it with Lipitor and Crestor.
That could lead to a quandary for doctors who are already prescribing Thalomid for multiple myeloma.
No longer would they have to feel that they must deceive patients by prescribing placebos.
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Caution should be taken in prescribing statins for primary prevention among people at low cardiovascular risk.
I'm scared of prescribing to what I'm supposed to be or supposed to be doing.
To be entirely fair to Mr Moore, he is not prescribing a fixed solution.
He has called for a national prescribing chart similar to that introduced in Wales in 2004.
The past 12 months have brought new laws prescribing tougher sentences for traffickers, and the seizure of their assets.
Ask the prescribing doctor the name of the drug, the correct dosage, and what it is for.
But I believe that concerns about the widespread prescribing of lorcaserin played into the more stringent classification.
Dr Dobbin says doctors who use the programme report a fall in anti-depressant prescribing of about 20%.
Lotronex was for preventing diarrhea, not constipation, but the doctors still may be shy about prescribing Zelnorm.
But the JAMA study gave doctors a reason to be even more conservative about prescribing the drugs.
Can Woolley point to industry-sponsored publications that do not recommend prescribing a drug manufactured by the sponsor?
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Using electronic prescribing and electronic patient records would also give staff more time to spend with patients.
Now, Ms. Greenly's service has lifted the bias he had against prescribing Lilly medicines, Dr. Cottle says.
Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones play psychiatrists who have been prescribing Emily prescription drugs to treat her condition.
To make sure statins aren't used indiscriminately, the AAP issued guidelines for doctors prescribing the medications for children.
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On Tuesday the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service suspended him from prescribing medication in private practice for 18 months.
And should doctors keep prescribing medicines when some potentially vital information is being kept out of view?
Our fee for service system rewards doctors for seeing more patients, doing more procedures and prescribing more drugs.
Prescribers could also be given advice on prescribing medicines that are not licensed for children - so-called "off-label" prescribing.
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