What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe UK Drug Safety Research Unit has discovered massive variations in the quantity of drugs prescribed by individual doctors (The Lancet, 11 September 1993). The differences suggest that some doctors may be influenced less by their patients'...
Recently, you may have heard of the British family whose 9-year-old daughter died from chickenpox after being given steroids to treat a relatively minor eye problem (see Case Study, p 10).
