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Originally Posted by RichL025
All joking aside, TELL THEM.
I'd be pretty pissed off if I found out a patient of mine deliberately withheld a high versed tolerance (next time I would just cardiovert him without any  ) |
Right on target with that reply...
my 2 cents:
MAB32, compromising your safety or the safety of a medical provider by withholding important information is comprable to patient 'malpractice' and falls under the catagory or negligence on the patient's part. It is the fastest way I know to be dismissed from a doctors practice, get labeled in your medical community so that no practicioner will take your case and you would not be a happy medical consumer.
It is attitudes and questions like yours that get my blood pressure up. Why would you question this issue....it makes no sense.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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