Re: Another Question for Belgian Hippies

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Hi ,

In my experience, unless you ask for something strong, you will be given the

Belgian equivelent of Tylenol in your IV after surgery. Tylenol doesn't

work well for me so I had a lot of pain. I didn't know why until later. I

thought I was just a wuss.

June RBHR De Smet, 11/27/03

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> Subject: Another question for Belgium Surfacehippies

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> Hi All!

>

> What did you do about bringing prescription (and OTC) medications with you to

> the hospital? I'm a hospital pharmacist, so I know that here we strongly

> prefer that patients use the hospital supply. Hospitals don't want the legal

> liability of having their employees administer medications of questionable

> origin. We may (and almost certainly do) have some medications that are

> unavailable in Belgium, and visa versa.

>

> Counting down the days until I leave for Belgium!

>

> Przygoda