My grandmother was rushed to the hospital on Thursday w/ severe pain. She leaves on the Eastern Shore so I left work and went over. The doctor said she has pancreatitis. Sometimes I think they just take a part of the body and ad "titis" to it and call it a disease or whatever. However, I did look this up and it stated it was pretty serious. The can not figure out how she got this since it usually occurs with people who have gall stones and she does not have a gall bladder or with heavy drinking. She has not had a drink probably since she was 21!
Anyway, they also said that medications can sometimes cause this. I looked up all of her medications. They were Lisinopril, Hydrochlorot, Metoformin, Glyburide, Vytorin, zoloft, and insulin for her diabetes. When looking these up it states that Glyburide should not be taken by insulin dependant people and 2 of the other drug interaction medications were Hydrochlorot and Metoformin. Now I understand that sometimes the benefit outway the risks but that may be the case w/ 1 conflicting medication but with 3? Does anyone know why the doctor would do this? He is supposed to call me tomorrow so that I can ask.
The hospital in Salisbury is ridiculous if you ask me. Where most hospitals have on call doctors on every floor and the regular physician sees the patient once a day or so, this hospital does not. They only have the regular doctor come see the patients, no on call physicians. I was hoping to get an unbiased explanation from another doctor. The nurses won't tell anything even though I have medical power of attorney. My mom was over there today and they said everything has to go through the doctor. They won't tell me over the phone the results of her tests because they said they can not verify it is truthfully me. I asked them to have her give them a password or something that she could give to me to verify that I am who I say I am. I can not go over there everyday, thats why we have been going in shifts, me, my mom, my aunt and my uncle. Ofcourse if I ask the doctor why he gave her these conflicting medications he is not going to say "Oh I did not know there is an interaction issue" he is going to say there isn't one and since I don't have a PHD how am I supposed to compete with that?
Anyway, they also said that medications can sometimes cause this. I looked up all of her medications. They were Lisinopril, Hydrochlorot, Metoformin, Glyburide, Vytorin, zoloft, and insulin for her diabetes. When looking these up it states that Glyburide should not be taken by insulin dependant people and 2 of the other drug interaction medications were Hydrochlorot and Metoformin. Now I understand that sometimes the benefit outway the risks but that may be the case w/ 1 conflicting medication but with 3? Does anyone know why the doctor would do this? He is supposed to call me tomorrow so that I can ask.
The hospital in Salisbury is ridiculous if you ask me. Where most hospitals have on call doctors on every floor and the regular physician sees the patient once a day or so, this hospital does not. They only have the regular doctor come see the patients, no on call physicians. I was hoping to get an unbiased explanation from another doctor. The nurses won't tell anything even though I have medical power of attorney. My mom was over there today and they said everything has to go through the doctor. They won't tell me over the phone the results of her tests because they said they can not verify it is truthfully me. I asked them to have her give them a password or something that she could give to me to verify that I am who I say I am. I can not go over there everyday, thats why we have been going in shifts, me, my mom, my aunt and my uncle. Ofcourse if I ask the doctor why he gave her these conflicting medications he is not going to say "Oh I did not know there is an interaction issue" he is going to say there isn't one and since I don't have a PHD how am I supposed to compete with that?
