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- The Brigham doctors put Jack on a standard regimen of four first-line tb drugs, a virtually foolproof cure in most locales.†
Chpt 3.14regimen = systematic plan
- So when a patient failed standard therapy, it seemed reasonable to try again, by merely strengthening the regimen a little and making sure all the doses were taken.†
Chpt 3.15
- When a patient didn't get better on standard therapy, a doctor should suspect that the tb was impervious to some drugs in the regimen and should find out which drugs as quickly as possible and substitute others.†
Chpt 3.15
- Farmer sent orders in great detail and devised the drug regimens for every patient, inventing tricks, as he put it, for the most resistant cases.†
Chpt 3.16 *regimens = systematic plans
- The system couldn't do another regimen, because of the fear they would be admitting a bigger problem.†
Chpt 3.16regimen = systematic plan
- Jaime had already tried to reason with his countrymen, the Peruvian tb authorities, asking that they let Socios have patients earlier, at least once the first round of dots had failed and before patients went through the standard retreatment regimen.†
Chpt 3.16
- Farmer had devised the regimen for Christian.†
Chpt 3.17
- Farmer proposed an "empiric" regimen—a regimen based on his best guesses—which consisted of high-dose ethambutol and four second-line drugs, including a fluoroquinolone.†
Chpt 3.17
- Farmer proposed an "empiric" regimen—a regimen based on his best guesses—which consisted of high-dose ethambutol and four second-line drugs, including a fluoroquinolone.†
Chpt 3.17
- The child, the doctor's daughter, had gone through dots and was now several months into the retreatment regimen.†
Chpt 3.17
- Or they could trust the lab work, abandon the dots retreatment regimen, and begin giving her Farmer's own favorite pediatric regimen of second-line drugs.†
Chpt 3.17
- Or they could trust the lab work, abandon the dots retreatment regimen, and begin giving her Farmer's own favorite pediatric regimen of second-line drugs.†
Chpt 3.17
- Indeed, soon afterward the doctors would place the girl on Farmer's regimen, and she would begin to recover, suffering few side effects.†
Chpt 3.17
- One hundred thousand of that country's prison inmates had active tb, Goldfarb said, and most if not all were being treated with the worst possible regimen—with a single drug—because the government hadn't come up with the money to buy more.†
Chpt 3.18
- He got Serena to obtain the regimen from her contacts at Mass General.†
Chpt 5.25
Definitions:
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(1)
(regimen) a systematic plan -- typically to improve health or fitness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)