"I've been the recipient of golf balls from one company and I use them, but it doesn't make me prescribe their medicine," says one doctor.

一位医生说：“我曾经收到过一家公司的高尔夫球，我也使用这些高尔夫球，但这并不能使我开出他们想要的药。”

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For example, not enough doctors prescribe niacin for their heart patients, even though the medicine is a proven treatment for raising "good" cholesterol.

举例来说，只有少数医生为心脏病患者开的处方中包含尼克酸，尽管这种药对治疗高胆固醇行之有效。

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Partly under its aegis, 27 potential anti-TB drugs are at various points along the pipeline that leads from a promising molecule to a medicine that doctors can prescribe.

在一定程度上，由于它的支持，27种有潜力的抗结核药正从不同的岔道通过生产线，即从可能的分子转变为医生可以开出的药品。

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When a drug is likely to cause a severe side effect--say, an increased risk of heart attack, an allergic reaction that causes the skin to burn or liver failure--the standard practice is to warn patients and doctors about the product's labeling, and to send out warning letters to physicians who might prescribe the medicine.

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All the candidates prescribe much the same medicine.

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Wall Street will prescribe the same old medicine until the patient dies an economic death without ever wondering why.

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