verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a doctor prescribes pills (= tells someone to take them )
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Her doctor just prescribed more pills and told her to take it easy.
a doctor prescribes sth (= writes an order for medicine for someone )
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My doctor prescribed a course of antibiotics.
a doctor prescribes tablets (= tells someone to take them )
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Dr Preston arrived and prescribed some pain-relieving tablets.
prescribe medication (= arrange for someone to take a particular type of medicine )
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Doctors should always explain the reasons for prescribing any medication.
prescribed medication (= one for which you need a doctor's order )
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What happens if the patient does not take their prescribed medication?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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After her delivery the symptoms did not decrease and a maintenance dose of oral prednisolone, 12.5 mg/day, was also prescribed .
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Exodus also prescribes death for those who defile the Sabbath or perform any work on that day.
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A fortnightly clinic at Guisborough and a monthly clinic in Brotton is also prescribed .
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Antibiotics were also prescribed for 48 hours prior to the operation to reduce the bacteria normally present in the bowel.
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It also prescribed new regulations governing tender offers.
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The commission's guidelines would also prescribe a standard way of testing hardware.
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Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective.
■ NOUN
course
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He was prescribed a course of multivitamins, essential fatty acids, and glutathione supplements.
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A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics.
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So he was prescribed a course of antibiotics.
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If your symptoms are severe, he or she may prescribe a course of antibiotics which are designed to kill the bacteria.
doctor
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The threats broke Errol, and doctors prescribed Prozac for depression and sleeping tablets for insomnia.
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If your doctor prescribes a medication that disrupts your sleep, you may want to ask her two questions.
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If you are taking any medicines in syrup form, ask your doctor if he can prescribe a sugar-free alternative.
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If your doctor prescribes a hypnotic, ask which one.
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The legislation also bans the practice of paying incentives to doctors to prescribe expensive brand name medicines.
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Next day the doctor prescribed small yellow pills for vertigo.
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There will be no limit on meeting the cost of medicines or the amount of medicines that your doctor can prescribe .
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In some, such as PacifiCare, the costs of medications doctors prescribe are deducted from their pay.
drug
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Analgesic and anti-emetic drugs had been prescribed .
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But unlike physicians, veterinarians sell -- and profit from -- the drugs they prescribe .
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The pharmaceutical industry had a legitimate interest in seeing that their own branded drugs were prescribed .
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Thus, these drugs should not be prescribed to patients with pre-existing peripheral neuropathy.
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It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs.
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Because of the risk of potential toxicity, patients have to be carefully screened so that the drug is not inappropriately prescribed .
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In some children the drug had not been prescribed .
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Also, older people are often treated by several doctors, who may not always know what other drugs have been prescribed .
form
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If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment, or to receive them, that is their choice.
law
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A new literature must arise, a literature without prescribed laws or rules of initiation.
medication
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These services could include prescribing certain medications and the referral of patients to medical specialists.
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If your doctor prescribes a medication that disrupts your sleep, you may want to ask her two questions.
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Overall, these data support the safety and effectiveness of Internet prescribing of selected medications .
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California and 29 other states have similar statutes barring the prescribing of medication to end life.
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Of course, I do have a few problems, but I have good caring doctors who have prescribed medication .
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First, ask if there are other medications or treatment alternatives to the prescribed medication.
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All prescribed medications , hospital stays, and transportation were offered free of charge.
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If you find a prescribed medication is disrupting your sleep, the effects may be temporary.
medicine
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The legislation also bans the practice of paying incentives to doctors to prescribe expensive brand name medicines .
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This worker can prescribe and dispense medicine , assuming a major function of a psychiatrist, for less money.
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The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case.
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The amount is not fixed firmly and the doctor will in no circumstances be told to stop prescribing necessary medicines .
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Treatment was not merely a matter of prescribing herbal medicines , but a whole regimen which controlled the diet and the life-style.
patient
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Results of the gastroscopy can be discussed with the patient before discharge and treatment can be prescribed .
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Under the best case, by the time the proper medicine is prescribed , this patient will be long dead.
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A doctor doesn't ask his patient what treatment to prescribe .
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Thus, these drugs should not be prescribed to patients with pre-existing peripheral neuropathy.
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They are given a budget to spend on the drugs they prescribe for their patients .
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Does this mean that doctors are now prescribing wine for patients at risk for heart attacks?
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Several private physicians have begun prescribing them to panicked patients .
physician
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Not suspecting polio, physicians prescribed codeine, penicillin, aspirin, and even antibiotics for their patients' aching bodies.
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In 1994, the California legislature passed a bill to permit physicians to prescribe marijuana.
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Yeast remedies are available over the counter, and a physician can prescribe antibiotics for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and others.
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Several private physicians have begun prescribing them to panicked patients.
pill
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The doctor advised rest and quiet and prescribed some red pills .
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When I continued to demur, he promised to prescribe only five pills , one for each of the next five nights.
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The doctors prescribed all kinds of pills .
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Next day the doctor prescribed small yellow pills for vertigo.
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When the morning after is Sunday: pharmacist prescribing of emergency contraceptive pills .
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When the body develops tolerance to a prescribed pill , some people ask their physicians to give them a different pill.
steroid
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I've prescribed steroids freely in the past without thinking about the immunosuppressant effect.
treatment
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If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment , or to receive them, that is their choice.
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Agreement developed that diagnosis should not result in mere labeling but should be used to prescribe appropriate treatment .
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She will then prescribe the appropriate treatment for your hair to be used on a regular basis between salon visits.
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Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Four years is the minimum jail sentence that federal law prescribes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agreement developed that diagnosis should not result in mere labeling but should be used to prescribe appropriate treatment.
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But some doctors have a history of abusing that trust for profit, prescribing unnecessary and ineffective diet regimes to all comers.
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It may prescribe the manner of their exercise, but it can not subvert the rights themselves....
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The clinic responded with two more alarm clocks before prescribing drugs.
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The same applied if antibiotics were prescribed, or a referral to a specialty, usually orthopaedics, was required.
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Therefore, I initiate disulfiram treatment by prescribing the drug for the patient to self-administer.
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We will introduce powers for nurses to prescribe where appropriate.
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What it does not do, of course, is to prescribe an appropriate style of professional practice.