英语释义
1. to prescribe (a medication, diagnostic test, etc.) in excess or more often than necessary
The family of a man who fatally overdosed is suing his doctors claiming they overprescribed addictive pain medication.
— WPXI.com (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) … tried … to warn the world against overprescribing antibiotics to a point that they would be useless.
— Network Ten (Australia) Critics say Xanax is overprescribed and widely abused.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell … the compelling and continuing issues of quality control and overprescribing in medical imaging …
— David J. Brenner and Hedvig Hricak Why do doctors overprescribe? Is it about covering their backsides in this litigious society?
— Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
2. to prescribe excessive or unnecessary medication
3. to prescribe (medication) unnecessarily or to excess