[Valmar]

> The nurse thought it was strange, but ultimately trusted the dispensing system that said everything was correct.

How sad.

This does lead me to wonder if said nurse, and other nurses, are properly trained to think for themselves.

> Poison control was called, but it didn't seem like they were able to give a clear treatment advice.

It gets worse... how come they weren't able to? Poor training? By-the-book training?

Shit like this doesn't inspire confidence in me that the medical system is even functioning properly, half of the time.

[Aeolun]

Poison control never deals with someone that has taken 38 pills of antibiotics...

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the first time in their history.

[eesmith]

From the actual text, rather than the summary:

> The doctor picked up the phone and called San Francisco’s poison control center. No one at the center had ever heard of an accidental overdose this large—for Septra or any other antibiotic, for that matter—and nothing close had ever been reported in the medical literature. The toxicology expert there told the panicked clinicians that there wasn’t much they could do other than monitor the patient closely.

[userbinator]

It's unfortunate (in the "safety rules are written in blood" manner), but now there's a datapoint that says a 38x overdose of Septra may be survivable, and what the effects can be.