Quotes About Prescription

Hopkirk, like many physicians of his day, also prescribed quinine to treat the flu. "In quinine," he wrote with great certainty, "we have a drug that not only controls fever-producing processes allied to fermentations, but also exerts a definite anti-toxic action on the specific virus of influenza itself.

I read the prescription. It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand." I followed the directions, with the happy result... that my life was preserved, and is still going on.

If I were a doctor, skipping would be my number one prescription.

During one long reporting trip, I had to get a prescription refilled. My doctor called a drugstore. Later he told me that, when the pharmacist demanded my home address, he didn't know how to answer and blurted out, "She's living in a van!" The pharmacist let it slide, but the episode made me think. In America, if you don't have an address, you're not a real person.

Science chases money and money chases its tail and the best minds of my generation can't make bail. But the bacteria are coming-- that's my prediction. It's the answer to this culture of the quick-fix prescription.

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

It's anxiety that led to a depression that I've been dealing with since I was 16, 17. That was the first time I was ever prescribed medication for either of those disorders I guess you would call it.

The Innovator's Prescription,

for things like migraine, high or low blood pressure, stomach cramps. I don't remember exactly, but Bach was the one prescribed most often, especially certain fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier. Wait, I'll be back in a minute.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

He had taken to wearing prescription glasses with tinted lenses and round gold frames. He thought they leant a distinguished look, rather like a professor or doctor. In truth, the glasses made him look like a malevolent Ghandhi.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Something like Valium," she suggested, "but not Valium." It sounded like a riddle

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

As will be demonstrated later, the true cause of the recent rise in mass shootings is not weapons but the increase in psychiatric drugs being prescribed for youngsters. The

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

We have taken on the health insurance industry, we have taken on the drug companies, instituting programs to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.

La vida no es como las medicinas, que todas vienen con su prospecto en el que se explican las contraindicaciones del producto y se detalla la dosis en que debe ser consumido. Nos la dan sin receta, la vida, y sin prospecto. La ética no puede suplir del todo esa deficiencia porque no es más que la crónica de los esfuerzos hechos por los humanos para remediarla.