So I guess murderous poisons are ok… sometimes.
“In 15 years at the hospital pharmacy, I’ve twice had to dispense Thalidomide.
If it isn’t administered correctly (through the spine), it causes hallucinations.”
I gavenebulized morphineto a sweet old lady who was dying very painfully in front of her family.
My pupils were pinpoint.
A few months before, he was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics for pneumonia, which led to the infection.
They tried other treatments to cure the infection, but nothing worked.
Eventually, the patient was accepted into a clinic trial for a fecal transplant.
One of his kids was the poop donor.
After the transplant, the infection actually cleared up!"
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5.
“Vodka because of methanol poisoning.”
“Some metabolic diseases are extremely rare but can be treated by replacing whatever enzyme is missing.
I’ve prescribedIdursulfaseforHunter syndrome.
It was something like $250k per month and was covered by the state.”
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GoodRx currently estimates Idursulfase at about$63k a month, or $756k a year.
“NICU nurse here.
I’ve had to give it to two different patients.
It’s a medication to help with really high blood ammonia levels in kids who have certain metabolic conditions.
The medication is extremely expensive!”
Used in severe last-ditch sepsis treatment.
Not a vial you want to drop."
oedisius
9.
I gave it to a girl who tried overdosing on Orajel.
It truly is an artificial-looking bright blue, and I gave it to her in her IV."
10.“Maggots.
We ended up using maggots to eat away the dead tissue while leaving the healthy tissue intact.
The worst part is always having to collect them afterward.”
“It was many years ago, and I was working with end-stage cancer patients.
It was specially made into a liquid and imported from somewhere in Europe.
I remember this med so vividly because it’s not every day you give someone heroin.
I have to admit, though, that it worked like magic.”
AlexsSister
12.
Once upon a time, it was thebest treatmentwe had for syphilis."
Melbourne, Australia, and I think it was a world first at the time.
We had a trauma patient who required a blood transfusion.
We hadn’t heard of synthetic blood, so it was kinda bizarre.
“Botulinum antitoxin, a treatment forbotulismpoisoning.
It cost about $15k twenty years ago.
The vial came from the CDC and contained four doses.
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15.
“I gave an old man an M&M one time when he was demanding a sleeping pill.
Blood pressure was too low, so the doctor wouldn’t order a real one.
16.“Whiskey.
It was funny signing it off on her meds chart every night.”
And lastly:
17.
“Sodium thiopental, or ' truth serum.'
In residency, someone had aconversion disorderin a movie theater.
He finally tells them he is paralyzed and can’t move.
I walk into the room and think to myself, ‘Whaaat the fuuuck?’
I take his history, return, and present him to my attending.
Attending asks me what I want to do.
He says we should give him thiopental.”
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