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The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 264 No 7089 p468
March 25, 2000 Letters

Peppermint water case

Over reaction

From Miss L. Martin

SIR,-What a complete overreaction by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on the question of whether community pharmacists should dispense extemporaneous preparations in the light of the recent serious error with peppermint water (PJ, March 11, p390).
I am in the first year of my pharmacy degree. What about my extemporaneous dispensing classes? Will the experience they provide be redundant in four years' time?
And what about individualised patient care? Not every patient's needs fit the ready made market of medicines. And most of those patients will be living in the community.

Lynn Martin
Brighton