Thick Discharge - Articles
Discharged
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Robert S.
I was discharged from the hospital early this afternoon and it's definitely nice to be home. I am experiencing significantly less pain when I inhale and not as short of breath as I was. So, my doctor discharged me with a prescription for Lovenox which I am to inject abdominally twice a day every twelve hours until I am directed otherwise. It will l ...
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The Discharge
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Nathan L.
So, here's a basic rundown of yesterday... We originally expected that Tricia would be discharged early afternoon (as she usually is) between her meds so that she would have time to get home for her next meds. Monday evening, we were told that she would be discharged around 10:30am on Tuesday, in part because there were two video cameras who want ...
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A Strange Discharge
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ANNGREGORY74
DAY +91 (DAY 231) WBC 6.4 K/UL RBC 3.31 L M/UL Hemoglobin 10.9 L G/DL Platelets 290 K/UL ANC 5.06 K/UL Today was my bone marrow biopsy/aspiration. Everything went really well and I got a very nice surprise. One of my leukemia PA's performed the procedure. We got to catch up on everything and it was really nice just to be able to talk. It t ...
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Discharged to Isolation
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xoxomarebear
Vivi is free, sort of. We were discharged today, still on isolation. I initially had a hissy fit that was an extreme overreaction to a minor inconvenience. Fortunately, I quickly realized this, apologized and requested assistance to correct the situation. So now Vivi, Justin and I are snuggled up in an isolation room at the Memphis Grizzlies Ho ...
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Discharge Instructions
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Dr. Country Doctor ..
Recently, a well educated and intelligent family member of mine was discharged from the hospital with a list of about a half dozen or so medications of which about half of them were knew. He had a list of the medications that was appropriately written out on discharge instructions and the writing was very clear and legible. He took the list of me ...
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Discharge Summary
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Sarah
We recently received Violet’s discharge summary from her hospital admission in November for seizures, they also included a copy of her CT report and her EEG. In her CT report, it was noted again about her Pineal Cyst that I have mentioned before in MRI Report 24.8.05 post as it was first found in her MRI @ birth. They don’t normally me ...
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Watada Discharged
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Chelsea Green
First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, who was forced by the Army into a three-year legal battle for refusing deployment to Iraq, this week won his fight.
Recognizing that the Iraq War was an illegal war no matter what the rah-rah traditional media said, Watada followed his conscience. He’s now been vindicated by the court, if not by [...]
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Discharge Instructions?
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Dr. Ed L.
Our department has a templated system of discharge instructions. Some are quite excellent, and cover the gamut from chest pain to fractures, Anthrax (believe it or not) to dog bite.However, there are always some that we lack. I often have to type instructions for the ones not pre-programmed in our computer system. Because we don’t have all ...
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In the thick of it
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Sarah Trejo
Have I mentioned I'm going nuts training? I have mental arguments with myself these days: Yesterday: Tired Sarah: "Ohhhhhhhh, but I ALREADY lifted and ran this morning! I don't WANNA swim tonight!" Athlete Sarah: "You're swimming. Shut up." Tired Sarah: "awwww, come ON!!!! Muscles HURT! Body TIRED! So sleepy!" ...
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