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Quotes About Prescription

While I support access to both traditional hormonal contraceptives and Plan B, I absolutely believe that they should require a prescription/doctor supervision, particularly for minors.
~ Jedediah Bila
Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.
~ Virginia Postrel
I think we should begin with a little exercise to flex our writing muscles,' Martha said, speaking very slowly as if she was on prescription drugs but I think it was just her way of trying to communicate with people less intelligent than she thought she was.
~ Kate Atkinson
Testosterone should be a controlled substance.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
~ Moliere
The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
~ Evan Esar
People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.
~ Atul Gawande
Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
~ Morrissey
In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.
~ Priscilla Shirer
I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
~ Merle Haggard
Compliance with legitimate authority was also apparent in the strange case of the "rectal ear ache" (Cohen & Davis, 1981). A doctor ordered eardrops for a patient suffering infection in the right ear. On the prescription, the doctor abbreviated "place in right ear" as "place in R ear." Reading the order, the compliant nurse put the required drops in the compliant patient's rectum.
~ David G. Myers
People do not invent languages by writing grammars, they write grammars – at least, the first grammars to be written for any given language – by observing the tacit, largely unconscious, rules that people seem to be applying when they speak. Yet once a book exists, and especially once it is employed in schoolrooms, people feel that the rules are not just descriptions of how people do talk, but prescriptions for how they should talk.
~ David Graeber
It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!
~ T. D. Jakes
It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.
~ Steve Goodier
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
~ Voltaire
Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.
~ Kendrick Meek
The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.
~ Arnold Kling
My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health
~ Kyffin Williams
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
~ Zach Braff
20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.
~ Bernie Sanders
If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.
~ Bernie Sanders
My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.
~ Della Reese
I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
~ Steven Wright
they should let some people into the library by prescription only
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke