Covering notes to Dr Richard Smith (Editor, BMJ) and to Professor Alasdair Breckenridge (CSM) sent with letter to Dr Munir Pirmohamed on 17 July 1998

Dear Richard Smith,

There is no need to respond to this, but perhaps you should be aware of it - given your good views about the quality of much published medical literature, and the value of peer review. Briefly, I've spent three months failing to get chapter & verse on what seems to me like some pretty funny data in the recent BMJ piece on ADRs/drug-induced iatrogenic illness. Perhaps my request to Prof Breckenridge was a bit too provocative - but now I'm having another go. I hope I'm not taking your name in vain. The attached letter is pretty much self-explanatory, and identifies the gaps I think there are.

Sincerely,

Dear Professor Breckenridge,

I am enclosing a copy of the letter I have today sent to Dr Pirmohamed, requesting some further information about your Department's recent paper on ADRs and drug-induced illness. I think the letter is self-explanatory, and I hope this abbreviated request seems reasonable to you.

Yours sincerely

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