Drug names need to be simplified for our patients’ safety
The patient’s heart was beating dangerously slowly, and his EKG showed third-degree AV block: His heart’s electrical system had completely shut down in the middle. If this were TV, the doctors would have started shouting “Epi!” and “Get the pads!” immediately. This was real life, though, so his team decided to briefly sit down with him to try to determine why his heartbeat had slowed so dramatically. Was it something …
