Health Related Forums > Topics in Healthcare
Participate in this Ethical discussion.
Diagnostic:
I agree with you but we were debating about placebos in general.
Using placebos can be common in anywhere and making research is not a condition but can be prescribed for people who visit doctors just to get medication thinking that may help her or his chronic pain but the patient may get addicted to the drug or may end up with bad side effect as a complication of overusing the prescribed medication.
In such condition patient can be given a dummy pill which of-course will help him by relieving the pain though placebo effect.
What do you think about this?
Pharmacist:
I agree if that's the reason for prescribing but such thing is not happening in Somalia since doctors prescribe unnecessary medications for undiagnosed diseases.
The strange thing I noticed is that even the doctors were affected by the laymen that they use the same non-medical terms when referring to the condition of the patient or prescribing drugs.
Example: Naqas ayaa hayo ee ku dhufo cirbadda naqaska?!!!
Mr Diagnostic, is there something like this (Cirbad Naqas or Cirbad Dhiig-joojin?)
Diagnostic:
These terms are used by some by non-professional health workers in Somalia.
For example, they called dexamethason injections as "Cirbad Naqas" which is not right.
Also they call "Vit K injection" as Cirbad Dhiig Joojin" which is also wrong.
These wrong misleading terms led to wrong beliefs that there are certain injections that can be used to do magic things like awakening from coma, stopping bleeding, disappearing the jaundice from the body etc.
Abdulrazzak:
Actualy during my studing and experience somali health is different what we tough so let us help in terms of needs in somalia you talking placebo there is ORS industry in somalia so we need to think how can we help. Sharing your ideas was good but not uptodate 2 somalia. Thankz
Pharmacist:
--- Quote from: Abdulrazzak on March 29, 2011, 11:48:54 PM ---Actualy during my studing and experience somali health is different what we tough so let us help in terms of needs in somalia you talking placebo there is ORS industry in somalia so we need to think how can we help. Sharing your ideas was good but not uptodate 2 somalia. Thankz
--- End quote ---
Is this Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) & Where?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version