After numerous letters to both Safeway and Giant (grocery stores in the Washington DC area) plus a letter to the company I found was responsible for the software, I've noticed that prescription labels in my area now have the correct symbols for milligram, mg instead of the previous MG. Another drip. Anyone notice whether this is now nationwide?
Michael Payne Corporate Pilot Potomac Falls Virginia On Fri, 10 May 2002 15:26:00 -0600 Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
