Overmedicating
My grandma's sick. She had chills and was febrile, indictating something infective was at work. The source? Some questioning in Hokkien revealed only a sore throat, non-productive cough and generalised malaise. Typical symptoms of early-onset flu. That's good, at least it wasn't anything serious, like a urinary tract infection or pneumonia.Poor grandma. She was really ill, dizzy and all. There's been this flu bug going around. In fact I just recovered from one. So we helped her to the clinic and let her doctor take a look.
The diagnosis: flu, as expected.
But the doctor gave her 9 medications! 9!!! Okay, 3 were for her knee pain. But 6 meds for flu?
The 6 were: cough syrup, anticongestants, antibiotics, NSAIDs, antipyretics and H2antagonists.
Overkill? I think so.
Wei Qiang converses @ 21:39
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