I just saw an article about a girl in Texas who died in March 2005 due to a similar-name medication error. Her family is running mobile billboards denouncing the pharmacy responsible. The family had been using stationary billboards for their message, but a judge’s order brought the billboard ads down. According to the newspaper article, [...]
Entries from September 3rd, 2006
Psychiatry comic
September 3rd, 2006 No Comments
I finished my psychiatry rotation last week. Happily, I didn’t get locked in the ward on the last day as Michelle Au did. I’m still using Google Calendar. It’s quite useful for figuring out call and lecture schedules. The send-daily-schedule-to-phone feature is nice too. I didn’t use my Palm during psychiatry, so I haven’t managed [...]
Tags: funny · psychiatry · scutmonkey
Post-coordination in SNOMED CT
September 3rd, 2006 1 Comment
In reading a recent debate on the HL7 strucdoc list, I saw the term “post-coordinate” but didn’t know what it meant. Post-coordinate is a SNOMED CT term for a piece of clinical text that requires more than one code or attribute to explain it. Of course, the term predates SNOMED CT and is used in [...]
Tags: SNOMED · vocabulary
