On average doctors write just over seven prescriptions each year per patient; in Germany it is double.
一个医生平均一年仅为每个病人开大约七个处方;而德国是这个数字的两倍。
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That might not sound particularly impressive, but the city is projected to grow at a blistering 10.58 percent annual rate, which would double the population in approximately seven years.
Underlying this is anxiety about achievement, recent Department for Education figures show that nearly double the number of boys failed to reach expected standards at seven.