tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10776815.post8337659053614410642..comments2024-01-31T08:27:22.773-08:00Comments on Your Pharmacist May Hate You: If You're A Small Government Type, I Guess You Must Have Your Own Pig Farm In Case You Ever Need HeparinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10776815.post-64544969505750688882008-03-16T06:28:00.000-07:002008-03-16T06:28:00.000-07:00Absolutely agree with you. One correction though. ...Absolutely agree with you. One correction though. Nurses aren't allowed to inject anything into your primary IV bag. It's a JCAHO violation and more importantly puts you at a huge risk for nosocomial infection as well as other safety issues(unverified compatibilty,dosing,appropriateness of drug, allergy screening, drug-disease/drug-drug interaction screening etc etc)<BR/><BR/>bottom line<BR/><BR/>if you are in a hospital that does this request to be transferred somewhere that is in good compliance with JCAHO standards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10776815.post-3490510639187676752008-03-09T19:46:00.000-07:002008-03-09T19:46:00.000-07:00Do we not have enough hog farms in North Carolina,...Do we not have enough hog farms in North Carolina, and all the other states to get enough raw material to make heparin in the US?<BR/><BR/>I used to work with packing houses and it seems like they'd pull it out to be processed for a small fee, since they already do that for other "parts" processing.<BR/><BR/>Some ingenious businessman or woman ought to see this as an opportunity. <BR/><BR/>Look at how biofuels started...at your neighborhood fast food joint.RehabNursehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02695247141022093754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10776815.post-65400515766367182032008-03-05T05:53:00.000-08:002008-03-05T05:53:00.000-08:00Her strategy for drug price reduction: reimport dr...Her strategy for drug price reduction: reimport drugs and sell to American public. (Just where did the drugs go, and why try to get them back, after potentially subjecting them to a broken chain of security?)<BR/><BR/>His strategy: get the manufacturers to come up with more amenable costs to consumers. <BR/><BR/>Which strategy seems more 'reasonable', 'fair or safe', 'mature', 'well-thought out', and 'sound'? (Especially to someone that deals in drugs every day, and is convinced that at one time the FDA was a 'seal' of the safest drug supply in the world, and trust is slipping away as republican watchdogs take their collective minds off the most important aspect of the FDA i.e. protecting health, safety, and welfare...in their greed for ever-expanding profit margins.) <BR/><BR/>So, couldn't hazard a guess to what the party of the big business deregulators would promote (as they talk out of each side of their mouths)... drugs from Mexico?<BR/><BR/>Cathy Lane RPhAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10776815.post-10974675041079568252008-03-04T22:50:00.000-08:002008-03-04T22:50:00.000-08:00Literally, America doesn't have the guts.Literally, America doesn't have the guts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10776815.post-29545933298541646202008-03-04T00:35:00.000-08:002008-03-04T00:35:00.000-08:00Why is it when you speak such common sense you sou...Why is it when you speak such common sense you sound so crazy, is the world so far off its rocker that sane seems nuts??Romius T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18043032468436393210noreply@blogger.com