> From: John King <[log in to unmask]>
> In article <000101bdb5e4$f7466a80$225f7ec2@-jeff>, Jeff Green
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >Of course your local
> >pharmacist might dilute Percutol, but I've not known community pharmacists
> >mess around like that for several years now.
> Funnily enough our local pharmacist did just that. Half remembering
> about GTN paste from a BMJ article I looked in the BNF and found that
> this was the only GTN ointment and prescribed it. A few days later I
> searched the BMJ website and found that it was 0.2%. I was expecting the
> patient back with a bad headache, but luckily the pharacist phoned
> first!
>
Ditto one of our local pharmacists. It seems effective as out of half
a dozen or so patients I would have referred over the last year only
two needed to go to outpatients as I recall. Not very scientific I
suppose, but they would have only got this from the specialist I
usually refer to in the first instance.
Dr David J Plews
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