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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

sjc wrote:
> 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.\

That's what I meant when I said messed up the units.



> 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.

I'm glad you are diligent and are okay.  At least you could tell there 
was an error from the label.  It would really be scary to have the lab 
match the prescription, but have the liquid be off because someone 
calculated a wrong dilution.  I suspect that is what happened with the 
horses.



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"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public 
debt  should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered 
and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed 
lest Rome become bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of 
living on public assistance."

--Cicero, 55 BC
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