Are small people seriously over-medicated? Big people under-medicated?

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4. well they certainly should pay attention to weight when dosing!

information on dosage per kg is readily available for doctors. if they ignore weight, in most cases they are being lazy at best and negligent at worst.

that said, many medications have a small starting dosage and you titrate up depending on the effectiveness and side effects for that particular patient, so this effectively takes into account all factors for that patient, weight included.


getting the dosage right the first time is usually more critical in a hospital setting, where they damn well better pay attention to weight.