Even the fiercest critic of the NHS would have thought that the system could manage to teach doctors to prescribe medicines safely.  Apparently not according to new research from the British Pharmacological Society.  This study has found that not only is the training so inadequate that medical students only fill in a hand full of prescriptions, but when they qualify up to 10% of the prescriptions that write are incorrect and potentially life threatening.  You really could not make this up!