I don’t get it. Really. Does it make sense that we must screen every single nursing home patient to see if they have a positive RPR or not? C’mon, how many of these elderly guys really have latent syphillis? and more importantly, do we REALLY think that they’ll be running around and spreading it to other nursing home patients?
A Chest X Ray for TB I can maybe understand, but this has gone too far!
So, my stint at Major Government Hospital is almost up, and I can’t wait to be free!! Last week my attending was assaulted by a one legged man when we tried to remove his potassium salt (Sodium Substitute since he was on a low Na diet for CHF) from him! Hilarious!
One thought on “What’s with the RPR anyways?”
elson
(Saturday February 14,2004 - 12:18 am)well you dont want these patients to develop a tertiary syphilis i.e. paretic or tabes dorsalis or whatever!