this is why american medical care is so expensive. Family’s and Law make doctors
“do everything” even when the doctors know there is 0.01% chance such a person even makes it out of the icu and that’s not saying anything about brain function.
I'd be shocked if this was anywhere near reality. Covid hasn't been an issue any of the hospitals that I work at to the point that many doctors and nurses don't even bother with N95 masks when seeing covid patients.
It's more likely this is people dying with covid and not from covid. If someone covid positive has a stroke or heart attack which column is that being written in?
I have had to write my share of death certificates, and most docs will write the easiest thing that gets the corner off their back. These statistics may be broadly true
medicine is unlike technology in that it has a much much higher level of human error in data points (intentional or not).
I’m a MD and this isn’t even remotely correct and the number seems to be pulled out of thin air. Comparing a 2 year PA program with a 4 year MD program plus mandatory 2-7 year additional training is extremely disingenuous.
It would make logical sense for it to function like that, but go ahead and test your theory. You will quickly find most places happily continue service for a while while sending bills and threatening collections.
This is especially true of those services that are difficult to cancel.
At my hospital the nursing UI of Epic is absolutely horrid. It's cluttered and confusing with multiple places to document everything.
Epic is completely customizable, but the people who make the decisions in nursing management aren't always the same people using the software. That and funding to make the changes.
If you want to see really bad software take a look at Meditech it defaults 800x600 (!), and doesn't resize well at all.
The indiegogo funded camect is pitched as a private 'cloud optional' recorder. The beta unit I have is cloud connected but the final release has the option to be fully local. It has a lot of neat features like identifying people/ups trucks/cars/etc.
It only has a webbased client, but I kind of like it and the beta version has been way better than any of the cheap dvr trash that big box stores sell.
-Depending on her weight 300mcg may be an appropriate dose for US guidelines (listed at 0.01mg/kg).
The listed issues may be from a company taking a 'one-size-fits-most' approach. They also do not update their product with respect to new guidelines and recommendations (new doses, new needle lengths, etc) Possibly to avoid further FDA approval processes? With such large profits and so little competition there is no incentive to innovate/update.
It is absolutely criminal that a <$20 drug can be sold for $4500... Auto-injectors have been a solved problem for decades, and there is nothing special about naloxone vs any other drug. Treating auto-injecting tech as different for each drug only helps drive up prices and keep out competition by making FDA approval very expensive.
I hope you are successful getting a generic auto-injector approved, but I don't think your biggest hurdle will be design or engineering.
they are completely different. Where I work in cali nurses are full time working 3 or 4 twelve hour shifts a week. Overtime optional and highly compensated.
medical residents will routinely do back to back 24 hour shifts with no sleep and even the ICU attendings will do a week of every other day 24 hour shifts.
The 16 hour rule only applies to interns. Once you reach second year the rule is 80 hours a week averaged over four weeks. This means that 100 hour weeks still do happen.
CURES works but at the cost of completely negating any type of privacy protection on medical records. Pretty much anyone (prescriber, dispenser, law enforcement) can pull up CURES reports knowing a persons last name and birthdate.
What is the point of HIPAA and medical privacy if anyone can log in and see what scheduled drugs you're taking? From the drugs you take I can pretty much derive your medical history. I consider this a much larger problem than the 'war on drugs'.
Or maybe you aren't a doctor and shouldn't be judging if your father needed abx based on a few google searches.
Get a second opinion from a professional if you think your dads doc is over prescribing.
While colds are not dangerous for the young -- they can be very dangerous for the elderly and easily progress to a pneumonia that can kill. Pneumonia used to be called 'old mans best friend' because it caused such a swift and painless death.
So what is 'just a cold' for you isnt for others and that isn't even taking into account that the elderly often have baseline lung disease.