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...came to our house, and I talked to other people who had invested with him, and I was persuaded." Rodríguez describes himself as "one of the victims" and says that most of his local clients have been "reasonable." At his office, he advises clients to be patient and gather together all their pertinent documents. But Pilar Vicente Ruíz, a homemaker with €6,000 invested, is one of many still furious with him. "If he could come to our house to sell us the policy," she asks, "why can't he come to our house...
...second code five, six west" was on the overhead as we ran onto the floor. Two codes at the same time on the same floor? "They're both in here," called a very distressed female voice from a patient room on the far side of the floor. We charged in to find this scene: A nurse's aide was pushing and tugging at an unconscious woman, dressed in white like a nurse, lying face-down, unconscious, on top of an old, fat, naked man, also unconscious in his hospital bed. The man was in for some urologic problem. The nurse...
...bedside table was a familiar yellow and red tube and it was almost empty. Nitropaste is a transcutaneous cardiac nitrate - a form of the more familiar 'nitroglycerin' that heart patients put under the tongue to relieve anginal chest pains. They both work by opening up certain blood vessels. Because it is well absorbed through the skin, it's given by squeezing a little out - like a half-inch long squeeze of toothpaste - onto a piece of paper or plastic and sticking it onto the patient's skin. Patients usually can do this for themselves - that's why it was left...
...concentration of activity was incredible; two full codes going on in the same smallish room. The medical people had squeezed in; there was a knot of them around each patient, hands on chins or EKG strips. We were working away but could only get their pressures up a little. They were both doing well lung-wise. The old man was completely out and intubated now; the nurse was breathing and reacted weakly when needles were inserted ,but that's all. There was a moment of stability and everyone seemed to look up at everyone else - the surgeons looked...
...riddle the smart medical resident solved was this: the student nurse had come in to say goodnight to her patient. She then gave him a backrub. And what did she use for the backrub? The cream on the bedside table - Nitropaste. The huge surface area of his back gave the patient a walloping dose. Even the surface area of the nurse's hands was enough to knock her out. Smiles went all around. Though the two weren't awake yet, we all knew that they were safe - a good thing about Nitropaste is you can "turn it off," rapidly stopping...