Monday, May 04, 2009

The death of a patient accidentally given a lethal morphine overdose is to be investigated.

BBC NEWS reports that "Dr Daniel Ubani gave David Gray 10 times too much painkiller while working for a Cambridgeshire health trust."

Surely the packs of morphine could be manufactured so that it is impossible for a doctor, however tired, to administer more than the normal dose?

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