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  • Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

    I was surprised to see that the article didn't mention Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT), another cardiac condition that also suddenly kills otherwise healthy adolescents and young athletes. We need to take more serious local, national, and international efforts in making available automated external defibrillators in ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by cprxmm77 on February 9, 2009

  • ER reform ideas

    Even if it were legal for ERs to turn away non emergency patients, for a practical matter, they wouldn't. The risk of a patient seeming to have a non emergency complaint and then dieing before seeing a physician and the potential malpractice suits (and news stories) is one hell of a deterent. Even if it were a policy in the ER, and there were no ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by pachessnut on September 16, 2008

  • Remedy for loss of sense of smell

    My sense of smell had left me, or at least 85 percent of it. I visited a nutritionist for a totally different problem. When he looked at my list of symptoms, checked off from his symptom list, he told me that he was sure I was lacking zinc. He sent me for a nutrient profile at SpectraCell Labs and they found that I was, definitely, deficient in ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by carlon7 on July 9, 2008

  • Re: Adherence to prescriptions

    This was one of the best summaries of the issue I have ever read. I would add that pharmaceutical companies are key to solving the problem. I know of a drug used to treat MS, which has adherence rates of 95%, because of the patient support program launched by its manufacturer. Because the drug costs $20,000/year, they can afford to provide ''gold ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by jeanlalonde on March 22, 2008

  • Re: treatment or diagnosis: Both miss the point

    CJM3:You want prevention? By all means, I agree that it would be a better thing than to treat catastrophic conditions. But don't tell physicians that they should be reimbursed based on their ability to prevent an outcome that is almost exclusively outside of their control. Instead, a far more powerful motivation will be to CHARGE PATIENTS who do ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by MedManagerWa on March 17, 2008

  • treatment or diagnosis: Both miss the point

    The author of this article falls victim to the type of fault that he seeks to illustrate. He spends paragraph after paragraph telling us about what he percieves as the problem, while devoting precious little time to discussing the solution. Even in the comments that I have read on this article so far, few have focused on how to fix the problems ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by MedManagerWa on March 14, 2008

  • Re: Dr. Problems article

    I'm primarily (and happily) familiar with the Canadian system in which nurses aren't quite considered part of the ''room service'', but I agree with NurseDarla - nurses are severely underrated as medical professionals. I know someone who is an ER nurse. She is exceptionally intelligent, highly competent, a quick and critical thinker, and ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by Peripheral Vision on March 12, 2008