Many channels ran this story. Apparently 1 in 18 prescriptions for children in hospitals is incorrect. What a disaster. Baron Carter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 24 April, 2001 19:12 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:12449] Re: NBC-4 Washington In a message dated 2001-04-24 17:39:47 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TV meteorologist Bob Ryan is giving pollen count in parts per cubic meter on NBC-4 in Washington, DC. NBC-4 is NBC network station in the US Capital. Bob also is Past President of the American Meteorological Society. The same Channel 4 (WRC-TV) also had a story tonight on medical dosing problems. Apparently a child died at Children's Hospital in D.C. because the doctor prescribed ".5" mg of medicine (he meant 0.5, of course, but didn't write it correctly) and the person who gave the medicine measured out 5 mg -- 10 times as much -- and it killed the kid. The story also mentioned the number of people who die in hospitals due to medical mistakes. I wonder how much of it is due to overmedication due to measuring people in pounds instead of kg (as most know many pharmaceutical doses are based on mass in kg). My two kids went in for physicals this past week and I had to fight to get their measurements correctly -- and the nurses thought I was a nut. Carleton
