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by Herodotus38 11y ago
Do you mean in Iceland, or generally? I agree with your statement, although I don't think it applied to this woman.
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by Herodotus38 11y ago
The other night I admitted a woman in her 90s to the hospital. When I asked her how her chest pain started, she said she started feeling it while she was at work. At first I was thinking "Does she have dementia?" but she explaine
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by Herodotus38 11y ago
It's a federal, searchable database to see which companies have given money to medical/dental (and other?) providers. The idea being to allow people to understand that there could be influence from that company on the provider.
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by Herodotus38 11y ago
I wouldn't say certainly, but sometimes. There are a lot of more common causes of ST depressions than STEMIs. For example, left ventricular hypertrophy with tachycardia.
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by Herodotus38 11y ago
Thanks, I actually searched initially for metronidazole and lyme disease through pubmed (which is the Google of medical literature) and passed over one interesting article that could support its use (fortunately not behind a paywall): http
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by Herodotus38 11y ago
To be a little more clear pacemaker != defibrillator, although often they are combined into one device. A defibrillator gives a large shock to the heart to knock it out of a dangerous rhythm such as ventricular tachycardia or ventricular f
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by Herodotus38 11y ago
I'm curious why you were given metronidazole: was it for Lyme disease or did you develop a C difficile infection from other antibiotics? I'm just curious because I'm a physician and have never heard of using metronidazole fo