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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Doctors are busy in developing countries

Doctors in developing nations spend less than 60 sec to prescribe medicine: WHO
Kounteya Sinha, TNN | Apr 23, 2011, 03.58am IST
NEW DELHI: On an average, doctors in developing countries spend less than 60 seconds in prescribing medicines and explaining the regimen to their patients, according to World Health Organization's (WHO) World Medicines Situation 2011 that was released on Friday.

As a result, only half of patients receive any advice on how to take their medicines and about one third of them don't know how to take their medicines immediately on leaving the facility.
Posted by Sangeeta Narang at 3:46 AM

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