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The Strange Story of Clozapine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

P. J. McKenna  and
P. E. Bailey
P. J. McKenna*
Affiliation:
Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge CB1 5EF
P. E. Bailey
Affiliation:
Clinical Research, Sandoz Pharma Ltd, CH-4002 Basel, now Boehringer Ingelheim Deutschland GmbH, Klinische Forschung Ingelheim, Bingerstrasse 173, D-6507 Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany
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∗Correspondence
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A feature of the recent history of medicine has been the introduction of treatments whose costs are orders of magnitude higher than doctors are used to justifying. Having previously been left almost untouched by these developments, psychiatrists are beginning to find themselves in the position previously occupied by renal physicians, transplant surgeons, and oncologists – having to face uncomfortable decisions about costs versus benefits and the rationing of medical care. To a considerable extent this is a consequence of the launch of the new, ‘atypical’, and ‘superior’ neuroleptic, clozapine.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 32 - 37
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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