Re: MRI and gadolinium - more off topic stuff

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

It is certainly appealing to believe at first kiss, that the gastro 
intestinal route has variable therapeutic effectiveness and that the
subcutaneous/intravenous/intramuscular route is more "scientific".
  
 Never the less, I humbly suggest that effective drug dosage may not even 
be firmly established as between men and women, or young and old, time of
day, time of month, season of year (all of which have been implicated in
drug variability studies.)

 Hence Karl's sweeping judgment is ..er.. premature?

(As I cannot resist reminding an American audience, these quaint 
Europeans who are accustomed to oral adminstrations have this annoying
statistical propensity for living longer than US citizens
 - and their bureaucratic socialized medicine system costs them less 
than half of ours...)   :-)

Brian Whatcott    Altus OK


At 08:08 8/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
> Too many vairables!  When did you eat last?  What's in your stomach? How
> much is in your stomach?  Put the stuff where its needed ASAP unless you're
> on a maintenance medication.  My 2 cents.  Karl
..
> > > (As a Canadian surgeon proactising here confided to me - there is a U.S
> > > love affair with injections - where a broad band antibiotic might
elsewhere
> > > be administered in oral form, here it is de rigeur to provide it
> > > intra-muscularly.
> > > Brian