Chapter 03

Medical Treatment

The term 'medical treatment' is almost synonymous with drug therapy. The physician establishes a diagnosis, and orders medication for the patient to take by mouth or by some other route; or he administers the drug himself or causes it to be administered by another (usually a nurse), e.g. by injection.

Correct choice of drug depends first and foremost on reaching the correct diagnosis. This is dealt with in other chapters, especially Chapter 2.

The current chapter concerns itself with problems caused by drug therapy per se, and we therefore ignore in this chapter only any further consideration of drug mishaps arising from errors of diagnosis.

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