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Still, all hospitals double-check the dosage of chemotherapy drugs that are given to a patient--and Dana-Farber is no exception. According to Gina Vild, a hospital spokeswoman, once the physician has written the order, Dana-Farber's rules require two pharmacists to verify it. "Pharmacist 1 is supposed to check it and, yes, is supposed to make the calculations himself," she told TIME. He then "gives it to Pharmacist 2, who looks at it and checks it" before sending the drug to the patient's room. When the order for Lehman came through, neither pharmacist caught the mistake...
...legal research on the Internet. But the majority say they were drawn to computers because, like Jack Fowler, 75, of Sun City West, Arizona, they simply didn't want to be left behind by progress. ``I couldn't keep up with my four-year- old grandson,'' says the retired pharmacist...
...national health care system with everyone thinking of me," says Rosenthal. "You've got to stop thinking about what is beat for me as a pharmacist, me as a nurse, me as a doctor...
Jacobs is already spending his weeks at the NIH campus. With a staff that includes a pharmacist, an immunologist and a psychologist, he is crafting standards for the 10 two-year research projects the office plans to fund at $100,000 each. Jacobs expects to steer clear of alternative therapies already being studied by other NIH departments, including the use of transcendental meditation for cardiovascular disease and acupuncture for substance abuse. "We may look at touch therapy, which is said to make patients better quicker," he says. "Or homeopathy, to relieve allergies, bronchitis or insomnia." He is also intrigued...
...questions we would probably ask. When a biochemist states that the mind resides throughout the body, his eyebrows go up. "You don't mean that my big toe can feel sad, do you?" Moyers asks. The biochemist does, and what's more, her reasoning makes sense. When a Chinese pharmacist shows Moyers dried scorpions and lizards used to make curative tea, he wants to know how it works but also how it tastes. Answer: really awful...