At 09:42 PM 5/10/2002 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How far has the metric system penetrated medicine? >Drug labels? >Dose instructions to patients? >Are all American pharmacists fully metricated by law? What about >doctors? It would be bizarre to mix systems.
I don't know enough about the medical system in the USA to answer this fully. I can say that the drugs I've had exposure to (well, at least the legal ones...) seem to be largely metricated (dosages in milligrams and milliliters), but that is a very small sampling. Jim Elwell Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
