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> So most of the time I had to just guess the dose of drugs to be given. I'm sorry for your loss. Just a question: isn't this the doctor's Job? My mother suf

by asjw 7y ago

> So most of the time I had to just guess the dose of drugs to be given. I'm sorry for your loss. Just a question: isn't this the doctor's Job? My mother suffered from high blood pressure for the past 50 years, we have this running in the family, her father died from a stroke, I have high blood pressure too. She also had a few serious other health problems (she took tuberculosis from a patient - she used to be a nurse - had a cardiac infection and an almost permanent renal insufficiency) and the drugs she had to take were incompatible with blood pressure drugs, but she always solved because she was under continuous medical check and the doctor adjusted the doses on a weekly bases, sometimes even daily.

adrian_b 7y ago
It should be a doctor's job to determine the doses, when they have to be changed every day, but I am not the CEO of some company, to be able to afford the fees of a doctor that would have to come every day to my house for years. Before bringing her home, 2 years ago, I already had to pay, for an emergency surgery and for 2 weeks in intensive care, an amount of money with which I could have bought a new home (here in Europe houses are much cheaper than in USA). Moreover, no doctor could do any better, because without continuous measurements nobody could guess the state of the patient better than me, who had a long experience about how her fluctuations in blood concentrations and pressure would manifest. Actually all her problems were caused in the beginning by wrong diagnostics put by real doctors, before I learned enough to be able to take care of her. Even this Omron watch is not what I would have needed, devices for non-invasive (i.e. without artery constriction) continuous monitoring of blood pressure are a very active area of research and are expected to become soon widely available, so in the not-distant future the treatment of such patients will become much easier.

by asjw 7y ago

adrian_b 7y ago

It should be a doctor's job to determine the doses, when they have to be changed every day, but I am not the CEO of some company, to be able to afford the fees of a doctor that would have to come every day to my house for years. Before bringing her home, 2 years ago, I already had to pay, for an emergency surgery and for 2 weeks in intensive care, an amount of money with which I could have bought a new home (here in Europe houses are much cheaper than in USA). Moreover, no doctor could do any better, because without continuous measurements nobody could guess the state of the patient better than me, who had a long experience about how her fluctuations in blood concentrations and pressure would manifest. Actually all her problems were caused in the beginning by wrong diagnostics put by real doctors, before I learned enough to be able to take care of her. Even this Omron watch is not what I would have needed, devices for non-invasive (i.e. without artery constriction) continuous monitoring of blood pressure are a very active area of research and are expected to become soon widely available, so in the not-distant future the treatment of such patients will become much easier.