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The prescription of a drug represents the culmination of a deliberative process between physician and patient aimed at the prevention, amelioration, or elimination of a disease or disorder. This deliberative process requires that the physician understand a broad spectrum of scientific and psychosocial issues germane to the success of treatment.1
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