At 00:14 on 16/8/96, Armando Brito de Sa' wrote:
> At 18:51 15-08-1996 +0100, you wrote:
> >I have just refused to prescribe heparin (and supervise a patient's pre-
> >operative withdrawal from long term warfarin) for a locum surgical
> >consultant at a local hospital.
>
> (etc, snip)
>
> >Can anyone tell me, *is* this part of "usual medical services"? How many
> >of you have been asked to do this? and how many have done it?
> >Just curious - I'll still say no..;-)
> >Mary
> >--
> >Mary Hawking
>
> I don't want to get involved in the "usual medical services" issue -
> diferent organization methods - but want to say that for some time now many
> of us in Portugal have been using fraxiparin instead of heparin in
> ambulatory patients, heparin being kept for those admitted to hospital.
> Though more expensive, it is very easy to use (one SC injection twice a day)
> and extremely safe. Any comments?
>
> Armando
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It's very simple.
But.
To many things are simple and can be learned.
It's all so simple, but everything takes time, training, etc
And time is my/our constraining factor.
I could do so much more, only if.....
Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD
C. Sterrenburgstr 54
3151JG Hoek van Holland
the Netherlands (31) 174-384296/ Fax: -386249
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