The gauss is a cgs unit, not an SI unit. As Pierre rightly point out, 1 MG =
1hT or, as per the Wikipedia table at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system ,  1 G = 10^-4 T.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Pierre Abbat
Sent: 15 May 2014 10:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53819] Re: MG

On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 16:36:34 [email protected] wrote:
> Dr Patricia Weeks here at the Salem Clinic printed out a perscription 
> for my wife today for 150 MG of a particular medication. Astonished, I 
> pointed out to Dr Weeks that when the M is capitalized, it means mega, 
> which in this case, would means 150 megagrams, or 150 metric tons of
medication.

MG is not megagram. It is megagauss (1 MG=1 hT).

Pierre

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