2007-10-14-TSBP

After Paul Trusten's message on the USMA list (link goes to my request for information as his email doesn't seem to be there) with his response to the ABC13 weather blog, I sent the following to the TSBP:

I came across the Winter 2005 issue of the newsletter which has a piece (in the Complaint Corner on page 4) about the importance of double checking pediatric prescriptions for ml/cc/tsp errors.

It seems the easiest and best way to solve this problem is to require prescriptions to always use metric exclusively. Given droppers with ml on them are readily available, there's no reason for consumers like myself to be confused (you just read to the line that says 4ml) and it solves a whole slew of issues (from prescription errors to using teaspoons out of the drawer which have a very high variance).

Is there currently any movement to change the regulations to require such, and if not could the TSBP please start changing the regulations to be exclusively metric?

Rather than making these errors just harder to do, let's just make them go away completely.

Regards,
Paul