Comments on: Time for a New Medical Doctrine? (Updated) http://greyswan.net/2007/05/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/ A mostly unpredictable weblog Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:22:12 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: anonMD http://greyswan.net/2007/05/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-15 anonMD Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:19:43 +0000 http://www.greyswan.net/2007/05/30/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/#comment-15 I think the phrase was, "One of our tanks could defeat ten of theirs, but those damn Americans always had an eleventh." The currently used sulfa drug, Bactrim, has lots of nasty side effects. It can damage your bone marrow, liver, kidneys, and skin. People are also often allergic to sulfa drugs. It may see use now that the bugs are resistant to lots of other things. We're using things like polymyxin that used to only be used on the skin because of their toxicity. I think the phrase was, “One of our tanks could defeat ten of theirs, but those damn Americans always had an eleventh.”

The currently used sulfa drug, Bactrim, has lots of nasty side effects. It can damage your bone marrow, liver, kidneys, and skin. People are also often allergic to sulfa drugs. It may see use now that the bugs are resistant to lots of other things. We’re using things like polymyxin that used to only be used on the skin because of their toxicity.

]]> By: Anon http://greyswan.net/2007/05/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Anon Thu, 31 May 2007 15:40:13 +0000 http://www.greyswan.net/2007/05/30/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/#comment-14 Let's get back to using sulfa drugs too. They used them before antibiotics and in WW2. Thy've got their issues, like all drugs do, but they seemed pretty effective. Any doctors out there want to chime in? Gannon, the main reason the Sherman was effective was sheer numbers. I remember reading some great panzer commander who has probably dozens of tank kills to his record was finally ambushed by about 10 Sherman tanks and blown to pieces in the ensuing fight. And some German said something to the effect of, "A German panzer can defeat 10 Shermans, but unfortunately there are 11 Shermans." Let’s get back to using sulfa drugs too. They used them before antibiotics and in WW2. Thy’ve got their issues, like all drugs do, but they seemed pretty effective. Any doctors out there want to chime in?

Gannon, the main reason the Sherman was effective was sheer numbers. I remember reading some great panzer commander who has probably dozens of tank kills to his record was finally ambushed by about 10 Sherman tanks and blown to pieces in the ensuing fight. And some German said something to the effect of, “A German panzer can defeat 10 Shermans, but unfortunately there are 11 Shermans.”

]]> By: Anon http://greyswan.net/2007/05/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Anon Thu, 31 May 2007 15:34:58 +0000 http://www.greyswan.net/2007/05/30/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/#comment-13 Let's get back to using sulfa drugs too. They used them before antibiotics and in WW2. Thy've got their issues, like all drugs do, but they seemed pretty effective. Any doctors out there ant to chime in? Let’s get back to using sulfa drugs too. They used them before antibiotics and in WW2. Thy’ve got their issues, like all drugs do, but they seemed pretty effective. Any doctors out there ant to chime in?

]]> By: Gannon http://greyswan.net/2007/05/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Gannon Thu, 31 May 2007 12:27:58 +0000 http://www.greyswan.net/2007/05/30/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/#comment-12 To say that the equipment of the Germans were rougly the same than of the French is true quantity wise but not quality wise. The Luftwaffe was clearly superior and one Panther could face easily more than ten French tanks. In fact, Sherman's were crap too, and without clear air superiority the Panthers and Tigers would have easily thrown the allies back into the atlantic. Only the soviets had a comparable tank to the Panther. To say that the equipment of the Germans were rougly the same than
of the French is true quantity wise but not quality wise. The Luftwaffe was clearly superior and one Panther could face easily more than ten French tanks. In fact, Sherman’s were crap too, and without clear air superiority the Panthers and Tigers would have easily thrown the allies back into the atlantic. Only the soviets had a comparable tank to the Panther.

]]> By: barry http://greyswan.net/2007/05/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-11 barry Thu, 31 May 2007 02:07:15 +0000 http://www.greyswan.net/2007/05/30/time-for-a-new-medical-doctrine/#comment-11 <p>Grey Swan: We now commonly see methicillin resistant staph aureus. It is resistant to all the commonly used anti staph drugs, but it is sensitive to septra and doxycycline. In the past, i would never have treated a staph infection as it was recognized that these two drugs were generally ineffecgtive against staph. Instead I used Keflex or oxacillin, or Augmentin. The MRSA staph is now resistant to these drugs. Years ago the drug clindamycin was commonly used to treat all sorts of infections, but people developed side effects to it and its use was severely curtailed. Now it is effective against most MRSA infections and it is the drug I reach for when I suspect resistant staph. The drug was uncommonly used for over 20 years. barry</p> Grey Swan: We now commonly see methicillin resistant staph aureus. It is resistant to all the commonly used anti staph drugs, but it is sensitive to septra and doxycycline. In the past, i would never have treated a staph infection as it was recognized that these two drugs were generally ineffecgtive against staph. Instead I used Keflex or oxacillin, or Augmentin. The MRSA staph is now resistant to these drugs. Years ago the drug clindamycin was commonly used to treat all sorts of infections, but people developed side effects to it and its use was severely curtailed. Now it is effective against most MRSA infections and it is the drug I reach for when I suspect resistant staph. The drug was uncommonly used for over 20 years. barry

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