I agree that there are more sensible alternatives. Doctors need to be
sensitive to religious backgrounds as well as physical conditions.
Stacy.
At 11:32 PM 11/13/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I know someone for whom this is also the case, although for a different
condition.
But I think today
At 06:30 11/14/2002 -0800, you wrote:
At 11:32 PM 11/13/2002 -0700, Marc wrote:
BTW, why didn't the doc prescribe digitalis or digoxin? Digitalis has
been around
since antiquity (it comes from the foxglove plant), and digoxin has been
in use
since at least WWII, iirc. It's usually the drug of
The doctor told him he could either pay a dollar per caffeine
pill or drink a cup of coffee every day. So at breakfast, he would say
it
was time to take his medicine, then drink a cup of coffee. Since it was
prescribed, it wasn't breaking the WoW.
Cool story. I agree. What's the name of the
I know someone for whom this is also the case, although for a different condition.
But I think today doctors are smart enough to come up with suitable alternatives.
A bottle of 100 No-doze here costs only a couple of dollars, and those are only
arctic pesos, so probably only like, three cents, eh?
