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2004-01-09 Arabia
Police Saves Doctor From Mob Fury After Patient’s Death
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-01-09 11:48|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 yeah, that shot of oxygen in the vein is often prescribed. I see it on TV every time a hit man wants to kill someone in a hospital bed - beats the pillow over the face
Posted by Frank G  2004-1-9 12:21:27 PM||   2004-1-9 12:21:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the entire history of the middle east in 1 little parable.
Posted by 4thInfVet (not a steve) 2004-1-9 12:45:27 PM||   2004-1-9 12:45:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 From his last intern review..."Not a great medical practitioner, but can recite the Koran forward and backwards from memory."
Posted by john  2004-1-9 12:49:05 PM||   2004-1-9 12:49:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve White, is it possible that the doctor gave him atropine?
Posted by Super Hose  2004-1-9 1:19:30 PM||   2004-1-9 1:19:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Usually, well-connected Saoodi's go for non-life-threatening degrees, such as architecture (they must be the twits who design the "art" featured in every traffic round-about) or advanced idiotarianism. I guess when Daddy bought his diploma the new wing, the "University" actually took it seriously. Fayez apparently wasn't his first victim, nor will he be the last, given the "police" reaction.

In other words, the "Dr." title is customarily an honorary thing in the Middle East, such as Dr. Mohamed Elbarradai, Egyptian "Nuclear Scientist" cum scum-sucking Diplo-Politician.
Posted by .com (not a Doc) 2004-1-9 2:33:43 PM||   2004-1-9 2:33:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 oh well one less Saudi, hope iraqi doctors don't came to practice in England.
Posted by Jon Shep 2004-1-9 2:48:45 PM||   2004-1-9 2:48:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 You goes to the Dr. of Islam, you takes your chances....


On a more serious note, I remember reading that the average high schooler in the US has a better knowledge of medicine than the average Physician in the Middle East.
Posted by Mark 2004-1-9 4:29:30 PM||   2004-1-9 4:29:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 You see now Zionists? Where is your Ben CaseHistory now?

What? Oh. Sorry. This isn't the Millionaire? Where's Mike?
Posted by Dr. Zorba 2004-1-9 5:57:55 PM||   2004-1-9 5:57:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Finally! After all these months of ranting, I can rant on something IN MY SPECIALTY! Whoo-hooo!

Asthma: no, atropine wouldn't kill him. Wouldn't help much but wouldn't kill him. Initial treatment for a severe asthma attack includes inhaled albuterol (bronchodilator), oxygen, and solumedrol (corticosteroid). You can substitute injected epinephrine under the skin if you don't have a nebulizer machine for the albuterol; works about as well. I wonder if this was the "shot" times two?

Repeat albuterol x 6 or so. If this doesn't work and the patient deteriorates you give him shots of oxygen iv may need to intubate and provide mechanical ventilation. We then use lots of steroids and bronchodilators. There's more but that's enough for Dr. Hayami al-DumFuqui to get started.

I'm the director of our pulmonary fellowship here at the U. It boggles the mind that a doc could do something like this, even if daddy bought his degree at University of Jihad. We see a fair number of Arab docs in the US for training at different (mostly community) hospital programs, and while some of them are 7th Century stupid, most are generally decent and of average or better intelligence. They had to be to escape their miserable educational system and pass the exam that lets them into the U.S. A few of them are flat-out brilliant.

I've worked with a couple of Iraqi and Iranian docs -- smart, good people, and needless to say VERY happy to be here and not there. One Iranian doc (very careful to call himself "Persian" and not "Iranian") lost three brothers in the Iraq-Iran war, and he himself carried an AK for a while. He was even happier than Fred the day we bagged Saddam.

Perphaps Dr. al-DumFuqui was giving epinephrine shots, in which case I forgive him a teeny, tiny bit -- but locking himself away and lettingthe patient die should be sufficient cause to have him beheaded and his children sterilized just to make sure this particular gene line comes to an end.
Posted by Steve White  2004-1-9 6:05:52 PM||   2004-1-9 6:05:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe he locked himself in so that the patient couldn't see him rifeling through his desk for the hanging folder on the treatment of severe asthma attacks.
Posted by Super Hose  2004-1-9 11:01:44 PM||   2004-1-9 11:01:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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