Modern pharmaceutical “breakthroughs” sometimes do more harm than good.
Posted on June 25, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
Phil Brewer thought he knew exactly what to do when the ambulance crew wheeled a well-dressed man in his late sixties into the emergency department.
What he didn’t know: He was about to be involved in a series of events that would kill his patient.
Brewer, then an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine, had been alerted by the crew that the man, Sanders Tenant (a pseudonym), had suddenly begun to talk gibberish while dining out with his family.
Then his right arm and leg had gone weak. Read More
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