AMA Asks Patients: Do You Know What's in Your Medicine Cabinet?

U.S. Newswire, March, 2008

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Katherine M. Hatwell, Senior Public Information Officer of AMA Media Relations, 1-202-789-7419, katherine.hatwell@ama- assn.org

Marks National Patient Safety Awareness Week

CHICAGO,March 3/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --To help mark National Patient Safety Awareness Week, the American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on patients to be an active partner in their own health care -- starting with a simple check of the items in their own medicine cabinet. The theme of this years National Patient Safety Awareness Week, which begins today, is A Road Taken Together, and the AMA is offering easy tips for patients and new materials for physicians to help improve patient safety.

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