Once their patient was stable, the doctors questioned his niece. She had found several empty boxes of baking soda at his home and explained that her uncle, who lacked health insurance, had been using it to cope with severe indigestion.
With an understanding of what had went wrong, the doctors gave the patient fluids and potassium and potassium, which invigorated his kidneys. Slowly, the problem fixed itself.
In a note to The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Keyur Ajbani, Michael Chansky and Brigitte Baumann said that six days after his arrival, the elderly man could breathe without assistance. The hospital released him with a prescription for proper ulcer medication.
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where is universal health care when we need it.