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In an ideal world people would take their medication as
prescribed all the time. However we do not live in that
world for a variety of reasons. The problem is some
medications taken inconsistently can cause terrible side
effects (the mood stabilizer Lamotrigine comes to mind
where abrupt
raising of does can cause a deadly rash and
abrupt lowering can cause seizures).
My idea is to have a section of the documentation that
comes with the drug explain what the harm the drug could
do if it were taken intermittently. That way people would
be more likely to stick to it consistently if not doing so
were bad enough. Right now you have to search the
internet for this info if it's there at all.
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Are not such warnings the responsibility of the prescribing physician ? |
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And if not, then what function do physicians serve ? |
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We have physicians so that, on arrival flat on our backs in
Intensive Care, we do not find our treatment program decided
and administered by a cantankerous cyborg with suspicious
brown splash-marks on his ceiling. |
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You may be reassured that those brown stains are nothing more than the consequence of the projectile incontinence of a previous visitor, and absolutely not dried blood as the result of arterial spray combined with droplet fling from a bat'leth wieled with precision and unnecessary force. |
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^ Well I'm glad that's settled. |
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Such warnings would certainly be a good idea but who
really reads those mile-long documentation sheets
anyway? The doc has usually written the dosage on the
label; pop the pill and go. |
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It would be cool to bake this and add some nonsense, like
"gross overdosage will produce purple secretions from the
eyes accompanied by sterility" and see who Googles for
more info. |
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// who really reads those mile-long documentation sheets anyway? // |
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The lawyers that write and approve them. As you point out, humans don't bother. |
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So the active pill includes active part C and D at uneven concentrations. On ingestion D's half-life is more so with a bit of metabolism they balance out. Given more time or large ingestion dose that overpowers the initial metabolism they get out of balance and the taker has a blue urine reminder. Though, with the overdose, it will be a marker for the medic. |
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... when said medic eventually gets back from the golf course. |
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They like golf, because it's outside, in the fresh air, and best of all well away from sick people, who are whiny and depressing and you can catch things from them. |
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Do the paramedics play golf? |
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No, they're not proper doctors. That's why they're nowhere near as good at killing their victims. |
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The job of paramedics is to keep the victim alive until they get to a nice, warm, dry hospital where the dirt can be cleaned off them and medics can finish them off at leisure. |
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