"dave" <dave@notetnot.anetwork> wrote in message 
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> btw The patient is not me - but I have just returned fromn taking the
> person in question to a chemist with the medication leaflet: They said
> "under no circumstances take this combination and get back to your GP
> ASAP".

What else would you expect the pharmacist to say? You go in and say, the 
leaflet says these drugs might be harmful when taken together. The 
pharmacist will not know whether the doctor was aware of the interaction, 
but would know that a drug combination that presented a significant risk 
that had been knowingly prescribed, it would be to treat a condition that 
presented a greater risk. The only possible option open to the pharmacist 
would be to advise against taking the drugs until you had confirmed the 
prescription with the doctor who wrote it.


> The point of my post in asking about possible legal action against the
> GP was NOT for finacial gain. It was
> a) To bring attention to what had happened to prevent a similar thing
> happening to someone else.

If you told us what the two drugs are, there would be a larger pool of 
people to spread the word.

Colin Bignell