I firmly believe that if a professional medical society came out and said, "This is our prescription for health care reform, even if it costs us money," that would get attention.
As in Vietnam, the soldiers we love pursue to the best of their considerable ability the policy we hate, in which we insist that the native peoples whose land we've lied our way into follow our prescription for their lives at the point of our guns.
Through our actions we are writing our prescription for the world's future.
Our prescription dose for T⩾1b prostate cancer has changed during years.
Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of our prescription rule for early recognition of proven and/or probable IC was calculated according to standard definitions.
"I think it's a rip-off, having to pay money for our prescriptions," said Janet Buice, 40, a worker at a Ford plant in Atlanta.
"Or we say, 'Isn't that horrible?' while we're getting our next prescription for Rogaine or calling the doctor to order more Viagra".
If chemotherapy is not indicated for older patients and patients with small tumours, what would be our routine prescription for these patients?
Special interests like the prescription drug industry have benefitted from a Congress seeking campaign contributions, so that we pay nearly twice as much for our prescription drugs as do the people of Canada.
