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It is obvious that while appropriate drug therapy can be of great benefit, inappropriate therapy is not harmless. On all occasions, there should be a positive reason for prescribing a drug. Drug treatment should never become a routine. In hospital, it is still not uncommon to find ‘routine’ prescriptions for hypnotics, analgesics and purgatives without any consideration of individual need. Many patients may expect a consultation to result automatically in the prescription of a medicine, the provision of unnecessary antibiotic therapy for a viral illness being a common example. These situations are clearly undesirable and represent bad prescribing practice.