Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Did You Hear About The Time I Took My Daughter to the Doctor?

Archie Brown’s daughter, Evonne, called and asked him if he would be able to take her to see the doctor. She said she felt like she might have an ear infection, tonsillitis, a throat infection, laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia and sinusitis. In other words, she would have to get better to die! Archie said he would be right over.

When Dr. Neal came into the examining room, he made some inquiries and did a routine exam. But before he made any announcements about the treatments he would recommend, he got out his PDA and logged into Epocrates Online. Epocrates is a premium service for clinicians, designed to provide critical information about more than 3,300 different drugs, dosages, potentials reactions with other medications, and more.

After a few moments verifying the details, Dr. Neal wrote a prescription for Zithromax. He told Evonne to get some rest and take all the prescription. He was confident she would feel better soon.

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