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Young doctors are putting patients’ lives at risk because they are not being trained to prescribe medicines, a leading doctor has warned.

This doesn’t sound to good does it!

A pharmacologist and the former head of the Scottish drugs’ rationing body, said doctors are leaving medical school with little or no knowledge about how to prescribe drugs.

Some nurses know more about the skill than the doctors.

‘You might think medical schools would spend a lot more time teaching about prescribing but the exact opposite is the case. The vast majority’ of young doctors do not feel ready to dish out drugs when they start on the wards.

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