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Considerable attention has been directed towards the issue of patient safety by the media recently; hence the timeliness of the review article by Aronson. Medication errors represent one of the more commonly encountered adverse clinical incidents which have the potential to result in significant patient harm. Nearly all who read this journal can identify situations where we have either committed an error in prescribing or more commonly have been prevented from doing so by the vigilance of hospital pharmacy