‘PATIENTS ALSO INTELLIGENT’
“I think patients have intelligence as well as doctors,” a Christchurch cardiologist, Dr. D. Hay said at the annual conference of the Pharmaceutical Society on Saturday.
Dr. Hay said there were more advantages in telling patients about the drugs with whieh they were being treated than disadvantages. There was evidence that explanations to patients about the type of drug being administered, their purpose and even their possible side effects, produced greater cooperation from patients. Dr. Hay’s comments were made during a panel discussion of various questions raised by the conference. Other members of the panel were Dr. E. G. McQueen (chairman), medical assessor of the Pharmacology department at Otago University; Dr. D. W. Beaven, director of the
medical research unit at Princess Margaret Hospital, Christchurch; Mr C. A. Frederickson, member of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board, Nelson; Dr. F. W. Gunz, director of the cytogenetics unit at Christchurch Hospital; Dr. D. Poswillo, an oral surgeon, of Christchurch; Dr. W. J. Pryor, senior anaesthetist, Christchurch: and Dr. P. P. Savage, Medical Superintendent of Oakley Hospital, Auckland.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31090, 20 June 1966, Page 12
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