Corona Virus #6

[ultrarunner]

How can your Dr. issue those instructions when that drug hasn't even been tested vs. COVID-19?

Little can be done for off label use when the drug has a legitimate use...

 

[California]

How can your Dr. issue those instructions when that drug hasn't even been tested vs. COVID-19?

Doctor saw the same TV?

 

[rekees4300]

Little can be done for off label use when the drug has a legitimate use...

So perhaps the Doctor's instructions were for Malaria and that would be ethical? :confused3:

 

[k0ua]

How can your Dr. issue those instructions when that drug hasn't even been tested vs. COVID-19?

The Dr. can prescribe a drug that has been around for decades anytime he wants. Doesn't mean it is efficacious for Covid-19 but that is up to the Dr and the patient to decide if they want to risk it. Like the prez sez.. "what has a sick person got to lose" by trying this drug combo. It is not likely to hurt them, it may or may not help them. The French seemed to think it helped.

 

[dstig1]

I am also wondering why we are not trying to sterilize N95 masks? Instead of throwing away after each patient encounter can we throw away the mask at the end of the shift? can we spray some disenfectant on the mask after each encounter? Or maybe UV light exposure for a few seconds? Would this help the shortage?

Because it is not easy to do, and it can damage or destroy the filter media's effectiveness, even if the respirator appears undamaged visually.

 

[ultrarunner]

Shades of grey...

Poster could have said he was planning a trip to a part of the world with Malaria?

Not all script is written for immediate maladies... an example would be Anaphylaxis kits.

A Doctor writes a prescription which is filled and may never be used... and when used it might not even be the prescribed using it... back in Scouts the Scout Master carried one Anaphylaxis kit should one of the scouts have a severe allergic reaction... could be a bee sting.

One of Dads old friends owned a large cattle ranch... don't know how the subject came up but he said the Feed Store has all the basics... antibiotics and such... of course for farm animals.

I can see where it might be more of an ethics question if it was billed to insurance...

 

[rekees4300]

The Dr. can prescribe a drug that has been around for decades anytime he wants. Doesn't mean it is efficacious for Covid-19 but that is up to the Dr and the patient to decide if they want to risk it. Like the prez sez.. "what has a sick person got to lose" by trying this drug combo. It is not likely to hurt them, it may or may not help them. The French seemed to think it helped.

Perhaps the Dr. got his instructions from the French?

 

[Dftodd]

I read this morning that NY's essential businesses also include any one which is owned and operated by a single individual is exempt from the shut down,
and that also liquor stores are an essential business, like to know what idiot is dreaming up these exceptions.

Went past the strip where there are several liquor stores. The parking lots were packed to overflowing with people parked out on the street.

I got my motor carrier exemption letter yesterday to cover me if I get stopped in an area under lockdown or under curfew. Got a copy in the glove box of both my service truck and personal vehicle. Doubt I would get stopped in my company truck. But there's a chance if I'm in my personal truck and have to go in early.

 

[k0ua]

I don't see why you guys are questioning the proscribing of a well known drug we have used for other things for decades and it may or may not work for Covid-19. Why would Dr's NOT want to write the script, and WHY should patients that are ill not want to take it? I don't see where you are coming from.

 

[gsganzer]

As a country and as Americans we're monitoring, adapting, reacting and sacrificing as us Americans do! Our first responders are reporting, our factories and corporations are responding with increasing production for necessary material and goods and our people are rising to the calling their country asks of them! Don't for a minute believe anything different.

These are hard and difficult times for sure. Is our system perfect? No. But we're a resourceful people that when called upon rise to the challenge. We'll meet this challenge. We'll beat this challenge. And then we'll move on, ever stronger from our hardship. It's what the generations before us did and it's the values they instilled upon us.

Quit whining and start winning!