As suggested, the physicians' purposes were basically consistent with the care environment, which in turn resulted in the physicians' having more scope for agency, i.e. a greater spectrum of choices as to how to act in order to fulfil their purposes.
While the prescription of drugs by physicians for purposes not approved by the F.D.A., called off-label prescribing, is both legal and common in the treatment of older patients, the practice raises more difficult issues in young children.
Studies in health are generally conducted by physicians for purposes of helping in disease diagnosis [13, 14, 15].
In Bulgaria, Hungary, Estonia, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia and Montenegro nearly all physician use computers also for clinical purposes (EMR).
To compensate for our incompleteness as moral physicians we seek purpose or aim.
From the start, Cliggott Publishing produced original, peer reviewed articles written by physicians for the purpose of advancing medical practice.
Even before introducing Vioxx in Australia in 1999, Merck's Australian affiliate began to create an arthritis advisory board of influential physicians whose ostensible purpose was to educate the medical community about painkillers.
Guzzo [34] and Xiao [35] did address bias, having two researchers interpret each videotape for compliance with maximum barrier precautions, and a third acting as arbiter, but did not blind physicians to the purpose of the study.
As believed in Su's day, the "five poisons" used by Zhou era physicians for this purpose were thought to be cinnabar, realgar, chalcanthite, alum, and magnetite.
The discovery process in recent litigation has revealed that many pharmaceutical corporations recruit and train influential physicians for the purpose of manipulating their colleagues.
