The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7388 p205
18 February 2006

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Narrow-minded

From Dr K. Beard, FRCPE

I was pleased to see your comprehensive report on the conference “Drug safety — everyone’s business” (PDF 40K) held recently at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (PJ, 4 February, p139). Unfortunately, your headline does not reflect the overall mood of the meeting where many important issues were debated at length.

In addition, I was disappointed in the tone of the concluding paragraph, amplified in your article subtitle, which suggested that the conference organising committee failed to consider including a pharmacist in the programme. Your readers can be reassured that a pharmacist was included in the draft programme, but a change of plan on his part necessitated some rearrangement by the committee.

I firmly believe that the science and delivery of drug safety can only be advanced by adopting a truly multidisciplinary approach, but I fear that misleading, avoidable and rather narrow-minded comments will not help.

Keith Beard
Chairman, Organising Committee
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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