Re[2]: [nukkad] BBC E-mail: Test confusion 'risk to patients'

[Mean Drake <>]

Hello Ravi,

We often have many of those. There was this chap in my college and he was my 
immediate senior by 1 year when I got admission for MBBS and he passed his MBBS 
in the same year that I passed my MS. One chap at JJ hospital when asked the 
treatment for threatened abortion said,"Who is threatening? How they can 
threaten. I will file police complaint." My own class, there was a chap who was 
asked why aminophylline had to be dissolved in 10% dextrose before being given 
intravenously and he said innocently,"Because it is a bitter compound." Well 
can't say its not bitter but the examiner must have found it a bitter pill to 
swallow. Specially as it was pharmacology.

Sunday, February 3, 2008, 10:25:54 AM, you wrote:

> This is for teh doctors on Nukkad.
> A very interesting story springs to mind. During my stint as a
> Microbiology student at Sion Hospital, I came across a hilarious
> situation, though somewhat scary that there were medical practitioners
> like the gentleman I encountered, let loose on an unsuspecting public.
> This guy he was then doing his internship at the time brought in a
> sample of blood in an EDTA bulb asking for a BTCT (Bleeding Time and
> Clotting Time) test!
> When I told him it wasnt possible he then wanted to know if he brought
> it in a plain bulb or citrate one would it make a difference!

> Ravi

-- 
Best regards,
 Mean

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