In this post I will spend some time understanding the power of medications, then extract some fundamental principles from the GMC’s guidance on prescribing (April 2021). I then analyse two real-world scenarios in prescribing that I have experienced and reference each against the GMC’s guidance. The power of medications Medicines are powerful ‘chemicals’. How? A few milligrams – thousandths of a gram – can have powerful effects on the body’s organs. 20 mg of citalopram is 7 ten thousandths ofRead More …