Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Heath Ledger Remembrance Forum
I know we've talked about this before, but
Front-Ranger:
May I recommend that it is a very comforting thing to know CPR. I took a day-long class in it shortly after Heath's death and I'm glad I did.
optom3:
A couple of things I have noticed since moving here, is there is no cross checking.If I went to see a specialist In England, he would write to my family doctor to advise him of my treatment and any meds. he was going to prescribe.The family doctor then knows exactly what I am on.So I saw an orthopaedic specialist for shoulder and back problems, saw a gynaecologist and also, a gastroenterologist.I know I sound like a wreck.!!!!
Some of the arthritis meds gave me gastric probs etc etc.
The point is my family doctor had copies from all the specialists involved so it is like a double check system.
Here I could go from one walk-in clinic to another, one specialist to another,collecting meds as I went.There is no cross referencing. Even back in England I still double checked myself,dose, half life interactions etc.
To further confuse the issue, some of the drugs have different names here and in England,so acetaminophen is paracetamol in England.
The whole system here needs to be more tightly controlled.I am surprised there are not more overdoses. Just today, I went to see my family doctor for some more pain meds.He asked me if I needed any more Valium.I could easily have said yes.I told him no as the psychiatrist had prescribed it for me and I was actually in the process of reducing down the dose.
In England that could not happen, as the psychiatrist would have informed the family doctor what he was prescribing. So no chance of doubling up.
LauraGigs:
--- Quote ---To further confuse the issue, some of the drugs have different names here and in England,so acetaminophen is paracetamol in England.
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Oh, my gosh... When I read that, the "why" bell in my mind just went DingDingDing! Plus the fact he'd just flown in from overseas, where he may have taken different meds that could have stayed in his system through 1/22.
That makes so much sense.
(I don't imagine we'll ever know for sure, but those insights seem very logical to me.)
optom3:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on July 23, 2008, 12:12:50 am ---Oh, my gosh... When I read that, the "why" bell in my mind just went DingDingDing! Plus the fact he'd just flown in from overseas, where he may have taken different meds that could have stayed in his system through 1/22.
That makes so much sense.
(I don't imagine we'll ever know for sure, but those insights seem very logical to me.)
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The paracetamol/acetominophen one is really dangerous. It does not take many to kill you, in fact as few as 12. It is a horrible death as well.However I digress, I could easily have been taking both for eg a bad head ache not knowing it was the same drug.
That whole thing needs looking at. So many Brits and europeans come to Florida in the summer for Disney etc. Even our family doctor here, who I like, did not know, of the different names thing.
The other point is, if you are allergic to one medicine, which is called by a different name,what then ??????
I am very allergic to Voltarol called Cataflam here. It is an anti inflamatory.
In many cases even the generic names are different never mind all the drug companies different names for the same thing.
Actually the more I think about it, the more I think something needs to be done at a much higher level.
Also as said Patients here, as in England should have one main family physician who knows all the meds from all the different specialists people migt be seeing. That shoule be a fundamental requirement before prescribing anything.
louisev:
actually acetaminophen is the compound name. Paracetamol is a brand name, and is the equivalent to Tylenol, which is the most common brand name for acetaminophen in the USA. In addition, Paracetamol gets compounded with codeine to produce other Paracetamol brands, just as they compound it with codeine in the US to produce Tylenol 3, which is acetaminophen with 8 grams of codeine.
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