Original Pack Dispensing
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none) or who have been so subsidised bv the manufacturers. What would happen if everv university hospital applied the same restrictions? More worrying to me is the fact that where local National Health Service management labours under the delusion that drugs account for a considerable proportion of the overall costs of anaesthesia and intensive care a new breed of second class university department is being created. In these days of dwindling independent sources of f'unds such departments can hope to keep in the forefront only by doing investigative work that the manufacturers want to support: exeunt academic and clinical freedom, arm in arm. M D VICKERS
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