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Re: Pinworms - why wait?

At 11:40 PM 5/3/99 -0400, Graham Barden wrote:
>So why wait? If you were covering my patients I would want you to treat my
>patients as good as you would treat your own - seems like the right thing
to do
>is to treat the pinworms that night rather than having mom bug another doc
with
>a simple problem.
>- g barden
>


I didn't wait.  I called in a single Vermox 100mg for the child to start
that day, but I told the parents they'd have to call their own physician(s)
if they needed treatment and they'd need to call their regular peds during
the week to discuss the need for a second dose.

Michael Sachs, M.D.
General Pediatrician