Posted on 10/03/2014 10:43:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I don’t think Ebola is a computer virus
It could very well have been be a barely-literate nurse. There are very few native-born nurses these days. Most of the ones I see are third-world.
Not as thoroughly as they should. I don't want to second guess the nurse, but if anything in my notes warranted special attention from the doctor I would have put it on a yellow sticky note and put it on the page he works from.
I would verbally relay the information either to the doctor or the charge nurse and document. That is important...if it's not documented, it didn't happen.
Unsure who thought it was wise to allow computers programer to make medical decisions.
Gives new meaning to live by the computer, die by the computer.
The sooner they can come up with a fast computer diagnostic identification for ebola, the sooner the government can disqualify it for obamacare coverage.
This is a screwup of White House or State Department proportions.
I’m a doctor, and I work in urgent care.
Every day I review charts on patients who see the PA and NP “midlevels” who work for the urgent care practice I’m in who still haven’t gotten the memo:
Z-pak for sinus infection? Not for at least 5 years now.
Omnicef as first choice for uncomplicated otitis media in kids? No. It’s still Amoxicillin, but what the hell why not make them resistant right away, right?
Cipro 500mg twice daily for ten days for acute non-complicated urinary tract infections. Wrong. It’s 250mg twice daily for THREE days, has been for about ten years now.
I see surgeons who work part time in the practice giving middle aged anxiety-ridden whiners with less than 24 hours of “cough cold runny nose scratchy throat” ten days’ worth of Augmentin, Omnicef, Cipro, and freaking LEVAQUIN for god’s sake.
For a head cold.
The idea that this guy went to a major medical center where they most likely did at LEAST a CBC (complete blood count) on him which would indicate, IF he had an elevated white count (you usually do when you have a fever) whether the infection was bacterial or viral (left or right shifted WBC populations), he wouldn’t “need” and antibiotic.
Who WAS this moron he saw?
There’s some major malpractice here, besides not asking him where he’d been traveling, or documenting the fact that he TOLD THEM he came from a hot zone.
Some dipsh*t gave him an antibiotic and a pat on the back probably told him “viral syndrome,” but the antibiotic is “just in case.”
That’s NOT what antibiotics are for. “Just in case.” They’re for ACTIVE bacterial infections.
This is first year medical student basics, folks. Someone screwed up big time.
I’m working with an attorney’s group as I write this on drafting a class-action lawsuit. Start looking for late-night ads along the line of “Have you been prescribed an antibiotic for an upper respiratory illness and suffered an allergic reaction or complications such as C. difficile colitis? Call 800-bottom feeder now, you may be due compensation for pain and suffering from overprescribing unnecessary antibiotics.”
Short of big government stepping in and forbidding us writing prescriptions for antibiotics (which has happened I understand in Denmark, Norway, some other civilized places) or medical staff acting the role of adults again and learning to say “no” to the whiners who come in with a four hour “sinus infection,” or all out 100% resistance across the board, this is likely to be the only thing that will stop the madness.
I will never visit the doctor again. Most human ailments can be cured with sufficient whiskey, sex, and firearms.
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