时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(九)月


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This is Scientific American’s Sixty-Second-Science, I’m Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute.


Everybody loves your freeby, especially those samples you get at the doctor’s office with the latest greatest brand-name cures for your headache, or your heartburn, or whatever is the //. But a study published in September issue of southern medical tunnel finds those freebies may cost you in a long run, because doctors use those samples one that describing the more costly 1 brand-name medications, more often than the cheaper generic 2


The researchers try to prescribe habits of one particular group of 70 physicians, what made this practice idea is that some players move from one space to another, in the new place there is no room for other samples, so no more free flowing freebies. What the researchers found is when the physician is no longer under the influence of the free samples, the number of prescriptions 3 they give their // patients for generic drugs, rose from 12% to 30%. That means when the office was filled with brand-name samples, the doctors tend to write more brand-name scripts which the patient has to pay for. So in the end there is no such thing as a free drug which deepen 4 your heartburn I think you already knew. 


Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American’s Sixty-Second-Science, I’m Karen Hopkin.



1 costly
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
2 generic
adj.一般的,普通的,共有的
  • I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服,不买名牌。
  • The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。
3 prescriptions
药( prescription的名词复数 ); 处方; 开处方; 计划
  • The hospital of traditional Chinese medicine installed a computer to fill prescriptions. 中医医院装上了电子计算机来抓药。
  • Her main job was filling the doctor's prescriptions. 她的主要工作就是给大夫开的药方配药。
4 deepen
vt./vi.加深,(使)变深,加重,加浓
  • We'll have to deepen the well if we want more water.如果我们想要更多的水,就得把井加深。
  • Her wrinkles deepen with age.她的皱纹随年龄增长而变深。
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