BMJ should use “paracetamol” instead of “acetaminophen” in its index

EDITOR,—One drug is notably absent from C F George's editorial on the naming of drugs.1 Paracetamol is widely used for pain and fever from cradle to grave. It is also the substance most commonly taken in deliberate self poisoning,2 causing 150 deaths a year in Britain.3 It is a medicine that people travelling abroad take with them or buy when they get to their destination, so everyone should …