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Q: need to find identification of medication?


A: This is a really good one I've used several times. http://www.drugs.com/pill_identification_drug_picture.html

Q: is it legal for my landlord to deny me access to my apartment when rent is not behind?
my apartment caught fire-severe damage. I am being, and denied both entrance and access to my personal belongings in the apartment- since the date of the fire. some things were not damaged. My rent is current and has always been and my rental agreement is still in effect. I was told by the management that I cannot enter my rented property. Not even to retrieve my personal, important belongings, such as US Mail addressed to myself only, financial records, identification, and my employment related documents. Most importantly my medication and medical information. There is no notice or evidence of any legal agency investigating me, and I have no way to prevent strangers from tresspassing against my home.

A: No.

Q: guidlines for ID to pick up prescription medication?
The other day i went to walgreens (SC) and my DL were expired. I got permanent resident card that is not expired. THey wouldnt take it as a form of identification. I asked for the copy of those "guidlines" that says they cant accept federal governmnet issued id, and i cant find it anywhere online. They said - any state issued id, passport from any country, or anybody can pick your drugs up as long as they have that kind of id. but i couldnt because they dont "recongnize" permanent resident card lol i wonder if anyone knows the link to those "guidelines", or any info about whether they really cant take Permanent Resident card as an id to pick up medication? thank you

A: There are no guidelines. It is up to the individual pharmacy to determine whether or not to require id. Most pharmacies will only require id for controlled drugs.

Q: House MD episode identification!! HELP?
Ok, CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT THIS EPISODE IS CALLED, I'll explain the basic plot (as much as I can remember): House's rival (or something) comes to the clinic for a lecture of sorts. He apparently created an anti-migraine medication. House tries this medication, and it doesn't work. Can someone please help?

A: Season 2, episode 12; Distractions

Q: Pill Identification/placebo Question? Answers by doctors or nurses preferred.?
About ten days ago I had a knee injury (possible torn ACL, MCL or hyperextention). I do not see the orthopedic surgeon until Thursday, and my doctor has been prescribing me 5mg oxycodone (percocet) 2 tablets evert 4 to 6 hours as needed for pain. I recently ran out of my prescription so I called in a refill. When I got to the pharmacy to pick up my medication, I noticed a label on the bottle that said something like "This is the same exact drug you have been taking but may be different in shape, color or size". So, I took 2 right away because it had been almost eight hours since my last dose, and after taking it there seemed to be no effect at all on my pain and did not at all make me feel anything like the original oxycodone I had been taking. Is it possible that my doctor for whatever reason prescribed me a placebo drug because he believes my pain is not legitimate or as severe as I make it out to be? Is this something that is even a remote possibility?

A: It is unethical and Illegal for a Doctor to give you a Placebo when you have a real reason to take them. It's also Illegal for you to be able to call in a "refill" for this medication. This is a Control 2 medication which means that you need a new prescription every time you pick it up. The doctor can't even call in for refills. Unless you miss spoke, I would worry that the pharmacy misunderstood and filled one of your other medications or even gave you someone else's. Double check the name of the drug and the patient name on the bottle to make sure it's the one you want. If you did miss speak than it's quite possible that the pharmacy got two different brands of the same medication, but if this were the case than they should have affected you the same. I'm not sure what's really going on here but I do know there is NO way that the doctor would ever give you a placebo. As a matter of fact, they're impossible to even get unless you are a drug company conducting a research study.

Q: Feline worm identification
I'm wondering how I can identify different types of worms in cats. Pinworm, hookworm, and tapeworm (and roundworm, if it can come out of the anus, but I'm not sure if it does or not). I found a worm in my cat's stool and I'm not sure which one it is. I would like to know how to spot and tell the difference between all three, as opposed to someone just saying "your cat has __"... That way I'm prepared in the future. I found two worms in the stool, about a quarter inch long and they were contracting and expanding. They were white. Also, is Nemex an effective medication for all types of worms, or just certain ones? My shelter uses Nemex for both cats and dogs, and these are foster kittens from them. I assume that's not too good, then...

A: Sounds like tapeworm. It's frequently described as looking like a grain (or grains) of rice. A whole tapeworm is quite long but their body is segmented and they break off into lots of little pieces. My cats and dogs have had these from time to time. They can be spread by flea bites from infected animal to another animal. Hookworms and roundworms look something like rubber bands. Nemex is for treating roundworms and hookworms in dogs and puppies.

Q: How can this be true? Do illegal aliens REALLY get better FREE health care than the US Military?
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons: 1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963. 2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after. 3. Jack Ruby-who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later..by coincidence. "On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That's almost 44 per day---every day) A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the wo men who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas. According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million. The average patient in Parkland 's maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on heir immigration status or ability to pay. OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do. Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE. The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child---her previous two were also born at Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.) How long has this been going on? What are the long-term affects? Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the U.S. illegally---now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right, she's technically a U.S. citizen.) These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula. Most of these things are available to American citizens as well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable. Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification---no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income---an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word. "My husband is a pilot for the United States Navy (yes, he fought in Iraq ) and while the health care is good, we Navy wives don't get any of these perks!" Car seats? Diapers? Not so much. So my question is this: Does our public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American citizens? Yes it does! As I mentioned, the care I have received is perfectly adequate but it's bare bones, meat and potato medical care---not top of line. Their (the illegals) medical care is free---simply because they are il legal immigrants? Once again, there is no way to verify their income. Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.) There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County So the hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U.S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this? As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her. In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) req uirement. In the meantime, I have to end my column here. I have to go buy a car seat." (Ed: Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation----particularly to our "employees" in Congress.) PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY US CITIZEN YOU KNOW. If you want to verify accuracy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp I received this incredible email, but it seems like it would be impossible for it to be true, but check out snopes link. I do NOT hate immigrants. In fact, I love them, but they are so much easier to love back in their own country! I would like to go visit their country and meet them THERE.

A: believe or not they can even vote because nobody is going to check if everything they put in the voter registration form is the true...

Q: i have a question about those medical alert bracelets?
I just found out that I am very lactose intolerant; if I NEED to take a dairy aid (lactaid) before eating ANYTHING with even the least bit of dairy in it, should I wear a medical alert jewelry thing of some sort? Basically because I know some emergency medications have lactose in them... should I need to take one or be given one in an emergency should I get an identification thingy?

A: as far as i know, lactose intolerance does not need a medical bracelet unless you have a life threatening reaction to it [i.e. not being able to breath, etc.] medical alert bracelets are more for patients with allergies to penicillin, who have diabetes or heart conditions or have serious medical issues.

Q: Checked answers about gabapentin?
It is some what confusing about the wearing an id stating that you are taking it. But it states right here on my bottle: Carry or wear Medical Identification Stating you are Taking this medication. It doesn't say state what is wrong with you. That would be very important.

A: Because abrupt withdrawl may cause seizures. Your medic alert bracelet should also say why you are taking it.

Q: Significant other abusing medicine...identification help, anyone?
My significant other seems to have been abusing various prescription medications. I found what someone identified for me as an Oxycontin 30 as well as an entire baggie of Lortab 7.5s. I really want to confront the person about it, but don't know if it's just pain medicine or all kinds of medicine they are abusing. I found a baggie with about 11 light orange pills, oval shaped, no markings on them but they are scored in the middle where they can be broken in two on their dresser. What are these? And should I recommend they go to narcotics anonymous or what? I don't even know.

A: Confront the person and find out why they are doing that. If it's because of pain, let me know and I can help in that department. If it is for recreational reasons, narc.anonymous is one way, or if you fear for their life, report to the police so they do get some help. Mixing any kind of drugs can be fatal so easily, they all work on the central nervous system and one wrong dose is all it would take.

Q: Does anyone know an allergy medicine that is as good as Aleve Cold and Sinus...they took it off the shelves?
My mom is feeling so horrible. They took this medicine off the shelves this past week and mom says that it was the only thing that worked. It's true...I can tell the difference from when she does take it. She has been feeling really bad these past few days and I'd like to do something about it. She has missed work all this week. I am thinking that they took it off the shelves because of all the meth heads. There was a point in time where we could just pick it up right off the shelves...now we have to take a paper up to them so they can take it out from behind the counters and then they take all our info from our identification cards. It really sucks that we have people out there that mess it up for the people that are in a real need for this medication. If you have any advice...please let me know. Thanks.

A: Have her take a regular Aleve and a pseudophed. That is the same thing. You have to get the pseudophed behind the counter now (at least in Illinois). Its no longer on the shelves, but the at the pharmacy.

Q: microchip implants for your security.. are you for it?
A human microchip implant is an integrated circuit device or RFID tag encased in silicate glass and implanted into a human's body. Such subdermal implants can be used for information storage, including personal identification, medical history, medications, allergies, and contact information. your thoughts?

A: Most people don't even mind that we will be tracked. They are so oblivious to what all this means. To understand the v-chips, you have to see how all this started out. First, tracking started out as a number - to be specific a "social security" number. Many Christians were against this because it made humans look like numbers instead of lives. But, as time went along, things changed and no one saw anything wrong with it anymore. The government then wanted people to get use to computer-controlled devices and started to put v-chips in computers and televisions. After all, there is nothing wrong with the well-known "Parental Control," right? Of course not, then it started to escalate and then we got... V-chips for pets. A perfect idea, huh? Your pets will never be lost with this little devise! It is a simple chip that is placed in the shoulder blade-area of animals and you can see exactly where they are and when in case they get out. Pretty soon the whole tracking thing got more popular and they started putting trackers in cars. The theory behind it was that if you got in a crash or something happened to the driver, the chip would notify the police or the chip's headquarters to send help. Little did people know "OnStar" was more than just helping you, it was helping the government know where you were at all times. Simple-minded people didn't see where this was heading towards. They couldn't see what the chip really meant... it was truly "tracking." This isn't a conspiracy theory anymore. This is fact. The government wants all Americans to insert a v-chip in them. As you can see, things like this take a long time for people to get use to so my prediction is that they will probably first start off with criminals getting these permanent implants to gain more support. Then, to protect the children from the criminals, they will get the children chipped... and so on and so forth. So, to make a long story short, I am NOT for it. It is a complete violation of human rights. Why should I, who have never been in trouble with the law before, have to have my rights and privacy taken away? I shouldn't. It isn't fair or right. As for prisoners such as child molesters and serial murders... am I for it? YES. You may think I am hypocritical about this but let me explain - I think these people should be in prison for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately that doesn't happen most of the time. Most of the time they get let go after one or two years and re-offend within a year. Is this justice for the victims? No. So I'd use it as a tool to PUNISH violent offenders, not innocent citizens. So there's my answer and I'm sticking to it. :)

Q: Does our public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American citizens?
This has been around for a bit, but I thought is was worth sharing and debating: Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons: 1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963 2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after 3. Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later by coincidence On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That's almost 44 per day -- every day) A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants.' Crikey, that's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas. According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million. The average patient in Parkland's maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay. OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital, they do. Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE. The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child -- her previous two were also born at Parkland. Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.) How long has this been going on? What are the long-term effects? Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the U.S. Illegally -- now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right, she's technically a U.S. Citizen.) These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula. Most of these things are available to American citizens as well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable. Because these women are illegal immigrants they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification -- no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income -- an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word. My husband is a pilot for the United States Navy (yes, he fought in Iraq) and while the health care is good, we Navy wives don't get any of these perks! Car seats? Diapers? Not so much. So my question is this: Does our public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American citizens? Yes it does! As I mentioned, the care I have received is perfectly adequate but it's bare bones, meat and potato medical care -- not top of line. Their (the illegals) medical care is free -- simply because they are illegal immigrants? Once again, there is no way to verify their income. Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.) There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County. So the hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U.S. citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this? As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her. In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) requirement. http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp

A: Thanks for writing this well researched article. I have been saying this for quite a while now. The amount of money our government spends on medicaid is astronomical. In 1995, total state and fed medicaid spending was approx $156B, in 2004 $309B. In 2004 fed spending alone was $176B. Adults between the age of 21 and 64 without children receive no medicaid benefits at all. Here is a nice quote "As noted above, in a recent year in Colorado, the state's emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers - average of $5,000 per baby." The solution is easy, go after the employers, without jobs, illegals immigration will decline. Force illegals applying for medicaid to reveal their sources of income, then go after the employers. Go to "numbersUSA" if you want to get active, and work to bring immigration back under control.

Q: Car-Bike Accident?
Recently I have just gotten into a car-bike accident. We decided to do the settlement out of court. I have to pay a lum sum of money for the repairs of the other party's bike. I have done so and I want him to sign an agreement to state that I will not be held responsible for future repairs. He agreed but how should I go about writing the agreement letter? Another thing, he has very minor skin injuries and a light sprain on his leg which he has already tried to let it heal by itself and if it is not very serious he would not consult a doctor and that does not require me to pay. He seems fine to me and what I am afraid of is if future injuries he would blame it on the same incident so I would like him to state that he is physically fine and I would not have to bear any medical costs. This is the part where I worry what if he doesn't agree to sign regarding the medical fees (so he will be able to charge me with all his medical fees in the future by other causes) what should I do? This is the ageement letter which I am going to write: I, (my name/identifitcation number) has already settled the full amount $X for the repairs of (his name/identification number)'s bike and shall not be held responsible for any further future repairs of the bike. I have not thought of the medical fees part. How should I put it that the person is fine and does not require any medication and I will not have to pay for his future medication not related to the incident? Thanks, any help will be greatly appreciated, this is my first accident and I'm pretty much traumatized by it. Please guide me through if you can. Thanks again...

A: Your agreement is not worth the paper it will be written on. You are playing with a very large and dangerous snake, friend. If you insist on going through with this I beg you to at least shell out two hundred dollars for a lawyer to draft a release form and witness the settlement. If he refuses to sign a release you should contact your insurance company at once (I still can't believe you haven't). Even the most well intentioned acts and the most honest of people can turn into demons when you least expect it. His 'minor' injuries could develop into a multitude of ills, (possible scarring, infections, long term treatments, etc.). Are you confident enough to risk this kind of money and/or lawsuits to a hand written release form? Don't let your emotions cloud good judgement right now -- if you have ANY reservations contact your insurance carrier.

Q: What to do about ticks on my dog?
I just found 2 ticks on my 5 month old puppy. Please tell me if what we are doing is right/correct, and if we could do anything else. We were able to wrangle both ticks out but I am pretty sure only 1 head came out. What do you do about that? So today we bought pet safe inside insect spray outside insect spray, flea tick pet body spray and flea/tick body shampoo. He is not on oral medications because the last TWO vet visits when I have asked for an oral flea/tick medication and he said Simba would be ok until May. But tomorrow I am demanding a full years supply of the medication. I double bagged the the two ticks found on him for identification but I worry about lyme disease. Will the oral medication prevent him from being bit, or will it kill the the tick after he is already bit? Thank you so much, in advance, for your response!

A: Lyme disease is a pretty controversial topic currently in vet med. it will be up to you and your vet to discuss what to do if your dog does come up positive for lyme disease, but either way it is treatable and is in no way a death sentence. But because ticks can transmit other, much more serious diseases, I would recommend a year-round topical flea and tick preventative such as K9 advantix, as well as your year-round heartworm prevention. In addition, always check your pet for ticks and remove them as quickly as you can, since it does take about 24-48 hrs for the ticks to be able to transfer lyme disease. as you said, removing the entire tick is really important. as far as your last question, that will depend on the product you choose so you can discuss that with your vet as well. remember, calls to vets offices are typically free and they can almost always answer these types of questions.