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...heart rate is elevated, but his pressure is still low and his urine output has dropped off, doctor. His CBC and chemistries are okay and his temp is only 99. He looks very pale and sick and he's going crazy, agitated. He knows where he is but he won't stay still. I can't get him to stop picking at his dressing...
...About the Timing "When will I get back to normal" is a hard question to answer, even for a good doctor...
...Second Opinions Don't Always Add Up Too many physicians are quick to refer patients to yet another doctor instead of doing the heavy lifting themselves. That's not only inefficient ? it's bad medicine
...nervous. The patient was a well-groomed, 62-year-old tennis player who had given huge sums to the hospital's building campaign. Roger was young and active for a hip fracture; male patients don't usually get them just by falling. He saw his doctor regularly and was healthy. He was, in fact, a friend of my family. His hip surgery had gone very well, but here he was on the second post-op day, going - as we say in hospitals - down the tubes. We know this scenario: maybe unrecognized heart disease or maybe a blood clot...
...hardened livers that backed up the flow of blood, the hip pinnings done for alcohol-related osteoporotic fractures (like Roger's), the psychiatric care for alcohol-induced psychosis, even the male mastectomies for alcohol-induced growth of the male breast - these were all much less obvious. A good doctor, in those days, knew the subtleties of treating drinkers. And he or she knew one particular alcohol-related disease that had to be treated with great respect...