Medical Menagerie….
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Medical Menagerie….
Like Mike says, “You can’t make it up.” Amidst a lot of things like Trish’s current hospitalization may have been prevented had someone who checked Trish’s meds caught that what she was taking for nausea messed with her heart rhythm medicine; like Ginsu Knives…there’s more! There is a medicine Trish takes that only comes in 10 mg tablets. That said, she only needs 5 mg per day, so we cut the tablets in half. Well, we found out the day after Trish was admitted, that they (one of the largest and [supposedly] most advanced teaching hospitals in the Southeast) didn’t have that particular medication. Their doctors prescribed it, and approved its use, but they don’t have in their pharmacy??? So the hospital asked if I could bring Trish’s prescription from home, and let them give it to her, and I did. Yesterday I received a call while driving to the hospital, stating that they wanted me to bring our pill cutter, because the means to cut the pills had been taken away from the nurses (???), and the pharmacy didn’t provide that service for medicine they didn’t dispense. I asked if the cafeteria (which prepares food on a large scale) didn’t have a knife? Surgeons use scalpels every day; they couldn’t borrow one? They are adding on a huge new wing on the hospital, and there’s hundreds of construction workers on site who all carry retractable razor utility knives; one of them can’t spare 15 seconds to cut a pill? No, only our plastic, Chinese made, freebie pill cutter would do. For a moment I thought I might be having the proverbial, dreaded “acid flashback,” that 1960’s era authority figures all warned us of, if we partook. But it wasn’t. Like Mike says, “You can’t make it up.”
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