Word: patients
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...intern in a hospital pharmacy. Whenever we received a prescription order, I would go to the stock shelves, find the right bottle and count out the number of pills that were called for. A registered pharmacist verified my work and swept the pills into a container with the patient's name, which was then delivered to the appropriate floor. One day I put a weaker dose of a heart medication on the counting tray than I should have. Neither the pharmacist nor I caught my mistake, but the patient saw that the pills were not the color he was used...
...patient in my own close call showed, knowing the color and shape of the pills you take regularly is an important safeguard against taking the wrong one. Many new drugs have their own websites, complete with pictures. Another excellent source of visual information is the Physician's Desk Reference, which is available in many libraries. There's lots more information on the Web at www.pdr.net...
When I heard last week that the National Labor Relations Board had ruled that medical students have the right to form unions, I thought of my own medical training and the night two years ago when a colleague nearly killed a patient...
...over to see what all the commotion was about. My colleague--exhausted and overworked--had misread the label on a bottle of medication and administered a drug that paralyzed a patient, stopping his breathing. Fast thinking and the quick application of an antidote saved the patient's life. But it was a close call...
...TIME to review those records--roughly 1,500 pages of them. The upshot: not only has McCain never displayed signs of a psychological disorder, but also in many cases his doctors' reports read more glowingly about his mind than McCain's best-selling autobiography. Wrote a doctor in 1974: "Patient is a very intelligent, ambitious, competitive, intellectually curious, caring person...