utSterlingwas certainly correct that many if not most legal fees in such cases cannot and need not be precisely allocated to one claim or the other. Many of the services involved in preparing a contract or DTPA claim for trial must still be incurred if tort claims are appended to it; adding the latter claims does not render the former services unrecoverable. Requests for standard disclosures, proof of background facts, depositions of the primary actors, discovery motions and hearings,voir direof the jury, and a host of other services may be necessary whether a claim is filed alone or with others. To the extent such services would have been incurred on a recoverable claim alone, they are not disallowed simply because they do double service.

Question1

My question is concerned with the practical use of steroids. In

inflammatory bowel disease, what doses are used and when is the dose

reduced?

Question 2

What is the safe dosage/length of treatment for the drug dexmethasone

so that its destructive effects are avoided?164

Question 3

1. Please explain 'odds ratio' and 'risk ratio'.

2. What is meant by saying that diabetics have a 3.3 risk ratio of

developing dementia?

Question 4

I'm a medical student from the Faculty of Medicine, Peradeniya, Sri

Lanka. I have a question about the management of aspirin poisoning. Is it

reasonable to carry out a postalkaline diuresis in these patients?

Question 5

What is meant by intermediate syndrome in organophosphorus

poisoning?

Question 6

Many older drug therapies, e.g. penicillin in streptococcal sore throat,

have never been submitted to rigorous trials such as a randomized

controlled trial (RCT). Do you think they should be?1614

Question 7

Please explain why some drugs are teratogenic in the first trimester and

some in the second?

Question 8

What is the difference between compliance and concordance?

Question 9

The rates of paracetamol (acetaminophen) self-poisoning have decreased

in the UK. Why is this?

Question 10

Is N-acetylcysteine of any use in a case of paracetamol overdosage taken

16 hours previously?