PETALING JAYA: Patients, who self-medicate or do not follow the prescribed dosage given by doctors, are also major contributors for medical errors.
Malaysian Medical Association president Datuk S.R. Manalan said this factor contributed to errors happening because the patients did so without informing their doctors due to fear that they would get a “scolding”.
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