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by cynest 4994 days ago
>- Prescriptions are in units of pills, not nanograms of active substance

While that level of precision would be nice, pills are delineated by dosage so you can simply give 100mg of substance to one patient, and 200mg to another.
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sliverstorm 4994 days ago
Wait, the doctor can prescribe an arbitrary dosage (at least in mg, for example)?

Well, anyway, my point was that if dosage units are standardized (I thought they were, but maybe I'm wrong), e.g. 50mg capsules, the doctor cannot well prescribe a patient 5mg.

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TeMPOraL 4994 days ago
In case of non-psychoactive drugs I've seen doctors prescribing medicines in increments of 1/2 or even 1/3 of a pill.
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