Finding a venipuncture site in an IV drug user: drawing blood from addicts with scarred veins will force you to seek out nonroutine sites, as this case shows. Here are tips for avoiding problems.Calhoun, Bridget C
Flash forward to earlier this year when the Lord showed me that I had been exposed to lead in my childhood and that this might be something to address specifically. I would come to understand that blood testing for lead shows acute or recent exposures, not ones from years ago. Only bone ...
The blood work wasn’t fun (I passed out a few times while the blood draw was happening) and while the x-ray was easy I was still in very intense pain. By the time I got back to the internal medicine department, I couldn’t find a way to make myself comfortable. The good news ...