As Fan Gang implied, perhaps they have decided that now is the time to take the medicine.

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She says he told her to take her medicine and rest and give herself time to heal.

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He says his economic austerity medicine needs time to take affect and he insists that "there's light at the end of the tunnel".

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All the time watching the company having to take the medicine handed to it by the markets and the analysts for a decision taken years before.

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Vitality, an American firm, has come up with a cap for pill bottles that telephones hapless patients if they fail to take their medicine on time.

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Reijtenbagh stopped practicing medicine in 1990 to take on the full-time job of managing his family's fortune.

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In medicine, good ideas still take an appallingly long time to trickle down.

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The art of medicine, by contrast, relies on spending time with patients to take an accurate medical history, listening to all their symptoms and concerns and using common sense.

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