Josh,
Let us review the facts at hand:
The poster requested info.
I responded with my personal opinion and experience with a
similar drug.
I then backed it up with information from the drug
maker's web site.
I gave details of my situation and events that lead up to
it. A urologist who did not know the side effects of one of
the most commonly prescribed drugs in his speciality and a
lazy druggist. I had a reaction, which I later found out was
not uncommon and if I had been give sufficient information I
might have had a discussion with the doctor about
alternatives.
I then suggested that the poster do some additional
research.
I am sure you are a fine physician, but you don't know me or
my medical background. But your response did remind me of a
dear friend who is a stick-and-spoon dentist, he got his
hand severely slapped because in giving expert testimony he
once failed to preface his remarks with "In my opinion...."
Of that I am guilty, so if it makes you feel better:
In my opinion, based on personal antedotal experience, I
would not recommend any active person take a drug that has
shown a propensity to cause large tendons to break"
As far as your lecture on giving the medical profession a
break, I do every day, but Shakespeare may have said it
best: "thou dost protest too much" The days of blindly
turning one's health care over to the "professionals" is
over, gone, fini. Between the government, the courts and the
insurance companies, these days doctors (and all the other
medical professionals) need all the help they can get. The
doctors I hang with will take it.
So the next time you want to start calling people names, you
might consider engaging that part of the brain that parses
the English language before you start typing. Rather than
coming up with some lame, trite, protectionist response, you
might have offered something helpful.
I have grown weary of this, so allow me to I offer up one
last prescription: Doc, go find the nearest mirror, look
squarely into it and let forth with your best litany of name
calling. I have never, ever been called a gentleman, but in
your case I'll opt for the higher ground.
Have a nice day,
Bob Emery
Joshua Steinberg said:Bumper said:Unless your doctor cannot find any other medication to
treat your infection I would not take AVELOX...
Oh, please, where do you get off telling a woman not to
take an antibiotic for a suspected infection against
the recommendation of the doctor who examined her,
knows the situation, laid his/her hands on the mass in
her jaw, knows her other medical issues, and arranged
followup plans?
All I need in my careful difficult practice of medicine is
some uninformed alarmist doofus like you telling my
patients based purely on anecdote or rumor, "don't take
that blood pressure medicine!", "don't take that
antibiotic", "don't use that eczema lotion", etc.
It's nice of you to be concerned for the health and
wellbeing of another person, but give the doc a break and
imagine for at least a moment that the doctor also is
concerned for the health and wellbeing of the patient, has
laid out the options, has negotiated an approach to
treating the situation at hand, and is in a much better
position to care for this woman than you! Not every doctor
is uninformed, lazy, greedy, disinterested, and
unprofessional, as you might think from reading here in
this newsgroup. Doctor and patient (and for that matter,
massage therapist and patient, physical therapist and
patient, chiropractor and patient, nutritionist and
patient) can get a lot done working carefully and
earnestly together. Kindly try not to sabotage that work
together unless you really know how grossly inappropriate
someone's professional care is. I don't even like Avelox
and I never prescribe it. But at least I have a bit of
respect for another earnest professional who does. Sheesh.
-- Josh Steinberg MD, Syracuse
