I can't recall if I've told this story, so if it's a repeat, bear with me.
Me: "So, did the antibiotic I sent you home on not work?"
Patient: "No, I didn't take it."
Me: "It was a generic, right? Was it a problem with the cost?"
Patient: "No, I was in the pharmacy going to get it filled and the woman behind me told me not to take it, that it was bad for me. I bought an herbal supplement from her instead."
#canIhavehernumbersoIcanchokeher?
1 comment:
Forget choking her - turn her in for practising medicine without a license. It's one thing to give an opinion, no matter how uneducated it is. It's completely another to substitute your own sales pitch for medical advice.
I just had a patient's family member ask if they could add their "food grade" supplement to the pt's tube feedings. "It's cow lung - food grade, of course. It helps with [pt's]lungs. They've known for a long time that if you have problems with your lungs, you eat lung. if you have problems with your head, you eat brain. It's kept [pt] healthy till now, and I'm going to start [pt] back on it as soon as we get home." (Said of the morbidly obese, delerious pt who may well not get home b/c of poor life choices that are now catching up). And eating animal brain to improve your own mentation? Mad cow, anyone? Blech.
A.W.
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