03-25-2003, 12:00 PM | #11 |
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Woah! Timber Loftis, IW's personal free-advice lawyer! You rock!...I could have used some advice about a eyar or two ago, where this guy wsa trying to sue my wife and her insurance agency for a wreck that he created on his own. I won't dirty up this thread by talking about it, since it does not pertain to this story.
Wow...25% of people have violent reactions to hospital drugs? That is a large number!
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03-25-2003, 02:04 PM | #12 |
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25%...?
*Decides never to tell her doctor EVER about any broken limbs* You get them lousy money-grabbers, Antryg! Take TL off his leash and have him harrass them! Yeah! Thank God for free, though crap, health care *happy sigh*
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03-25-2003, 02:18 PM | #13 |
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To clarify, most medication reactions, in and out of hospitals, are minor ones like drowsiness, not life-threatening ones like antryg experienced. I can only recall two life-threatening reactions to properly prescribed and administered medications. The reaction that antryg describes I have read about but never myself witnessed.
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03-25-2003, 03:54 PM | #14 |
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Attalus is correct in that very few people have the violent type of reaction that I had. It does happen but like Att the Knight said it is usually very mild. The thing that makes it harder for doctors and hospitals to be certain is that drug sensitivity testing is both dangerous and expensive. It is understandable that a doctor wouldn't want to specialize in an area that basically says "let me test you with this and see if it kills you". The precautions that the Doctor who performed the testing for me were many and awesome. His office was in effect an emergency room in case somebody did have a violent reaction to even minute traces of a drug. It took me 4 months to get an appointment and there was only a choice of 2 clinics in 200 miles. The next closest such testing clinic was in Houston. That translates into 1 such clinic per every 5 million people in the North Texas area. If doctors had to wait for everyone that needed surgery to be tested for drug reaction before surgery then we would end up with a lot fewer surgeries and probably a lot more deaths.
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