I've been the Director of Critical/Emergent Care at a Hospital in Houston TX, as well as New Orleans, LA. The scenario you present, while not identical to my experience, is not all that uncommon. I co ncur...
Patients MUST be open and forthcoming about any issues they have with giving you the whole story. Ther Clinician/Patient relationship only works when the communication goes two ways. I sugest patients write...
These drugs are dose dependant. Control of levels of the drug in home made "batches" reflect in the duration. Also the drugs don't seem to be acting under more tolerance during subsequent doses.
For a multiple of situations, hemodialysis can provide sufficient respite for the Kidney's to resume their independent function. A famous situation was when the Jack in the Box E Coli poisonings due t o...
Alzheimer's is not listed as the cause of death on a Coroner's Certificate. People die from a variety of other conditions. Pneumonia, Complications from slip and fall, Bedsores with subsequent infecti ous...