When I taught medicine, one of the oldest adages I passed on to students in how to apply the results of an abnormal chest film or lab test to an individuals situation is "Look at the patient, not the picture" (meaning that often abnormal test or imaging results prove insignificant or only marginally significant in your assessment if the …
When I taught medicine, one of the oldest adages I passed on to students in how to apply the results of an abnormal chest film or lab test to an individuals situation is "Look at the patient, not the picture" (meaning that often abnormal test or imaging results prove insignificant or only marginally significant in your assessment if the patient is feeling well or their physiologic function does not match what the test result suggests). The clinical condition of the patient is paramount over test results. Again, he exhibited no signs of SEVERE opiate intoxication and to argue that he did is unsupported by all the videotaped evidence and knowledge of how opiates cause death. See my below comment on the insignificance of him saying "I can't breathe" earlier in the episode, but I suspect it won't matter, you have reached your own conclusion, as we all must.
When I taught medicine, one of the oldest adages I passed on to students in how to apply the results of an abnormal chest film or lab test to an individuals situation is "Look at the patient, not the picture" (meaning that often abnormal test or imaging results prove insignificant or only marginally significant in your assessment if the patient is feeling well or their physiologic function does not match what the test result suggests). The clinical condition of the patient is paramount over test results. Again, he exhibited no signs of SEVERE opiate intoxication and to argue that he did is unsupported by all the videotaped evidence and knowledge of how opiates cause death. See my below comment on the insignificance of him saying "I can't breathe" earlier in the episode, but I suspect it won't matter, you have reached your own conclusion, as we all must.