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Under fire from anti-abortion physicians and Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced in March that it will re-examine a controversial November 2007 opinion outlining the limits of conscientious refusal.

The ACOG ethics committee opinion said physicians who have religious or moral objections to “standard practices,” such as abortion, sterilization or the prescribing of contraceptives, are not ethically obligated to provide those services but do owe patients a timely referral to another doctor willing to deliver them.

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One physician’s faxed order to discontinue hydrocodone, marketed as Anexsia, was misread by the pharmacist as an order to discontinue Arixtra, an anticoagulant. Another doctor intended to electronically order clonidine, an antihypertensive, but accidentally ordered the sedative clonazepam because both appeared as “CLON” on the computer screen.

These are just two of the 3,170 pairs of drug names that look or sound alike and can result in medication errors. They were found in a recent U.S. Pharmacopeia review of more than 26,000 patient records submitted over three years by 870 health care organizations. That total is nearly double the 1,750 similarly named drug pairs identified in a 2004 report issued by USP, a Rockville, Md.-based nonprofit standards-setting organization.

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