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[sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>]

EarthNSky wrote:
> Dilutions.  Fundamental math.  Probably a factor of ten, or they messed 
> up the units.  Sad, sad state of affairs.  As typical, I smell a lawsuit.
>   

Or carelessly used mg for meq, or grain/gram, or some other wacky 
conversion mess.  It would pay humans and critters alike if the 
pharmaceutical field could manage to standardize their measurement 
systems worldwide.

I just picked up potassium script yesterday; someone had used milligrams 
(mg) instead of milliequivilants (meq).  Fortunately for me I'm 
suspicious of them all.....
In this case especially glaring since every doctor I've worked for or 
gone to (or any of my clients have used)up here has written all scripts 
for K in meq's.  The very idea that someone thought "mg's" should have 
been a heads-up.....apparently didn't think at all.    Question and 
check every med you are forced to buy, both for name of med and dosage, 
and make sure it's the same as the RX called for.

SJ