Is Meaningful Use Killing Us?

It took days to unravel what happened.The patient first presented to her cardiologist a few weeks prior. We figured that she must have doubled her amlodipine dose that morning, because her blood pressure was uncharacteristically low. He dutifully documented the hypotension and discontinued the 5 mg of amlodipine, not realizing that she had accidentally taken too much.Seven days later, her systolic pressure reached the 200 mark. She, of course, didn’t know that. She only knew that her head started to hurt and that she was slurring her speech. By the time she arrived at the emergency room, she could barely move her right arm and leg.Please see the rest of my post at The Medical Bag.

Source: In My Humble Opinion - January 12, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs