Sentence examples for prescribed himself from inspiring English sources

In the late 1990s, unhappy and overwhelmed by his patient load, he prescribed himself Adderall, a stimulant.

Consider the story of Norman Cousins, a journalist who prescribed himself Groucho Marx films in order to induce the anaesthetic effect of belly-laughter.

Cope often prescribed himself medications, including large amounts of morphine, belladonna, and formalin, a substance based on formaldehyde used to preserve specimens.

Sloane had been caught prescribing himself pain medications with a Drug Enforcement Administration registration number that had expired three years earlier.

They were in a tight race, so McConnell leaked to the press that Sloane had used an expired Drug Enforcement Administration registration number to prescribe himself sleeping pills to help with pain from hip replacement surgery.

Instead, he prescribed for himself a regimen of daily piano playing, with his goal being to record an album to benefit sick children.

In a get-away-from-it-all restorative he prescribed for himself, Mr. Gates, after deputizing Mr. Ballmer, took a summer vacation with friends who included Warren E. Buffett and William Randolph Hearst 3d and activities that included glacier watching by boat near Juneau, Alaska, and a train trip through the Pacific Northwest.

I learned later that he was addicted to barbiturates that he prescribed for himself.

For while it can be readily agreed that an individual is free if he obeys only rules he prescribes for himself, this is so because an individual is a person with a single will.

This proposition echoes the first rule of provisional morality that Descartes prescribes for himself in the Discourse.

The Altman legacy has continued in a way that Benjamin Altman himself prescribed before his death 100 years ago, through a foundation that hands out grants.