Tuberculosis: Who should prescribe?

Abstract

The welcome decline in the number of patients suffering from tuberculosis in many countries, including Britain, has made experience in the diagnosis and management of the disease more difficult to obtain. Newly graduated doctors may have seen little or no tuberculous disease during their undergraduate years. A recent study in North America showed that there were prescription errors in over half the cases treated by recently qualified non-respiratory physicians, with the blame being placed (in part) on inadequacies in medical school curricula.