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It's obvious that some doctors, with 10 minutes a patient, are crumbling under the pressure to overprescribe.

This medical scam by the drug companies and doctors who overprescribe involves vast amounts of money.

But it is more accurate to point out that these new strains of bacteria develop when doctors overprescribe antibiotics.

Trends in health care reform may reinforce the tendency to overprescribe antidepressant medications.

Practitioners should resist external pressures from patients, families and schools to overprescribe and to promise more than can be delivered.

The band's name derives from a slang term for heroin or for a doctor who is willing to overprescribe drugs.

They contend that physicians who dispense drugs will have a financial incentive to overprescribe or limit prescriptions to those available in their relatively small inventories.

Making sure doctors didn't overprescribe the drug was one obvious precaution the F.D.A. failed to take.

"A doctor who represents a pharmaceutical company will tend to see the data in a slightly more positive light and as a result will overprescribe that company's drugs."

The name of the band, Dr. Feelgood, is slang for heroin, or for doctors who are prepared to overprescribe drugs.

If the care costs more than the fee, the plan or doctor must make up the difference, which creates a strong disincentive to overprescribe treatments tests or drugs.

Doctors tend to overprescribe the drugs, known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), for patients in and out of the hospital, the studies find.

They point to the F.D.A.'s own estimate that physicians overprescribe the drug, and argue that its use should be greatly restricted.

"The emergency rooms are afraid you are not going to go back for care, so they overprescribe and they are not very good at follow-up," she said.

Experts say doctors often had lucrative deals with drug manufacturers that led them to vastly overprescribe, and many expected cash payments on the side for timely and attentive care.

This week, Purdue agreed to pay $19.5 million to 26 states and the District of Columbia to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe OxyContin.

The exemption poses no problem in capitated plans, which charge patients a fixed annual fee no matter how many services are performed, or in other plans that penalize doctors who overprescribe tests and services.

Raymond Daniels Jr. and his wife, Jane, the parents of Jeffrey Daniels, said they hoped that yesterday's verdict saves other people from doctors who overprescribe OxyContin and other powerful drugs.

Lobbying Hinders Tracking of Drugs Public health and law enforcement officials have long argued that drug-tracking programs can save lives by identifying doctors who overprescribe narcotics as well as patients who forge prescriptions or con unsuspecting doctors.

The translators have to explain to both doctors and patients that the Japanese national fee system, which pays doctors the same fee for a three-minute or three-hour visit, gives doctors an incentive to overprescribe medicine as a way of boosting their income.