HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR DOCTOR: ERRUCTIONS, ERYTHROMYCIN AND EUTHANASIA
Erructions
The most common cause of erructions relates to the swallowing of air with food. By itself this phenomena is not considered a sign of disease more a signal that time is to be spent chewing and that food is not to be gulped. Some people are afflicted with the curse of Aerophagia. Much to the distress of all whom they encounter, these people become prolific swallowers and regurgitators of the atmosphere.
Erythromycin
Erythromycin is a broad spectrum antibiotic similar in its range of activity to the penicillin. Allergic reactions to Erythromycin are uncommon. Doctors use the drug if there is no prior history of antibiotic use or if penicillin allergy is present. Erythromycin upsets the stomach causing indigestion and sometimes stomach cramps in children. Common brand names are Erythrosine, Eryc and EES.
Euthanasia
60 per cent of the population is in favour of euthanasia. Many doctors oppose the concept because the provision of death is in direct conflict with their prime directives. Doctors battle against illness, suffering and death. For most doctors it is too much to ask that this world view be turned upside down. Doctors just won't redirect their energies to killing off their patients. This is not to say that every day doctors don't make administrative choices leading to the death of patients. They do. The decision to allocate resources to the more needy often means that care is withheld or withdrawn from those whose plight is deemed irretrievable. This sin of omission in terms of the provision of medical care is known as passive euthanasia.
Neither are doctors immune to the practice of active euthanasia. In most cases, they don't stop long enough to realize that this is what they have done. Take the case of an aged terminally ill patient with cancer. Doctors prescribe full therapeutic doses of morphine. In an adult, these doses relieve pain and provide comfort. For an old, debilitated, underweight person the same dose borders on the lethal. It is common enough to see frail elderly people die in hospital an hour and a half after their last dose of morphine. This is the time it takes for morphine to reach maximum serum levels and switch off the brains respiratory centre. Quietly and peacefully the elderly patient stops breathing.
The present debate in relation to euthanasia is not really about whether or not the practice should be condoned or condemned. The position of acceptance has already been reached. What remains to be decided is who is to take responsibility for euthanasia and what should be the attitude of the law.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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