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Re: Your Data or Your Life
by stapedium on Friday August 11, @12:00PM
Why did she tell them the name of her doctor instead of her spouse/parent/boyfriend? Any of these people are likely to know the essentials of her medical history. The fact that she is diabetic will be pretty obvious on her first set of blood labs. That she is penicillin allergic is not that essential since she doesn't have an active infection. And if she has an operation serious enough to need postop antibiotics she will be in an ICU with 1:1 or 1:2 nursing where any allergic rash will be picked up pretty quickly and the antibiotics changed. There are obviously situations where a very detailed past medical history can help, especially when following your own patient's, but the ER is not one of them.
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