Posts Tagged ‘hospital’

  • Stroke Quiz Answers

    Stroke Quiz Answers Answers to the Stroke Quiz on page 261 of BoomER Emergency Room Survival Guide: Name 3 signs or symptoms of a stroke: (Hint: see Page 252 in BoomER) — sudden numbness or weakness in an arm or leg, headache, dizziness, changes in vision or loss of vision in one eye, sudden confusion, difficulty […]

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  • When Patients Don’t Follow their Medication Regimen

    The warnings are impressive for those people who are naughty and do not take medications as prescribed: Medication non-compliance (non-adherence), the failure to take drugs on time in the dosages prescribed, is as dangerous and costly as many illnesses Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them — C. Everett Koop, MD 10% of hospital admissions […]

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