"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Remember the story about implanted defibrillators and how they should be used in more people? Well, here’s a story about their downside (link requires NY Times registration.)
The problem with them is that as a person’s heart disease advances, the defibrillators go off more and more. This is very uncomfortable since they deliver a jolting shock. The man in the story had his going off several times a day before he decided to turn it off and die. The cardiologists in the story play down this phenomenon, but it is very real. I’ve had a handful of patients experience this, and I don’t have that many with defibrillators. posted by Sydney on
3/26/2002 08:34:00 AM
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