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The company had a responsibility to “monitor what doctors were prescribing and patients were taking and how often,” Zailo said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024

A former staffer had complained that doctors were prescribing hormones too quickly and without enough mental health wraparound services.

From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2023

“If that were working, prescribers would have ben rapidly disenrolled who were prescribing inappropriately.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2019

The New York indictment offers further evidence that investigators have broadened their inquiry into doctors who were prescribing the drug to patients.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2018

In fact, he never prescribes it, for although when forbidding is hopeless, there is all the difference in the world between prescribing and permitting, permitting goes down as if it were prescribing.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir