Gen Y doctors prescribing blindly
26th March 2013
Junior doctors are willing to prescribe medications they have never even heard of, an Australian study finds, raising concerns about patient safety.
The Queensland study found 15% of junior doctors in a tertiary ED said they would consider prescribing a drug they didn't recognise the name of, and another 12.5% said they would chart a medication despite being unsure of its class or action.
The study, published in Emergency Medicine Australasia (online), also found junior doctors thought