Ah, exam technique and reading the question. Carbimazole not carbamazepine
:-)
Piers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Sargent [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 06 March 2007 15:10
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> Subject: Re: Saturday Morning
>
> Ask student "How many fits do you want him to have over the weekend?"
>
> Sorry - this sounds rude - did he pass exam?
>
> Interactions between paracetamol and carbamazepine are? (sorry It's been
> a
> while since I did pharmacy.)
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> I was working with my (still) unregistered doctor and a third year
> pharmacy student.
> The student had just completed his clinical pharmacy exams - so it
> having been a long
> time since I was a student asked him what they where about.
> The example he gave was a setting in which he was presented with a drug
> chart showing
> carbimazole and a patient complaining of a sore throat.
>
> "OK" - I said "that's in an exam, but what happens here on a Saturday
> morning. So far your
> response to the patient with a sore throat has been "Have you tried
> Strepsils?"
> Assuming that you'd asked some questions and discovered that the patient
> was taking
> carbimazole what would your advice have been?"
>
> "To stop taking the carbimazole and see a GP Monday morning." answered
> the student.
>
> My doctor disagreed.
>
> So over to you for your opinions please.
>
> TIA
>
> Jeff
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