Doctor’s bag

It was not unusual in 1968 to sec athletes with their own medical kits, practically a doctor s bag in which they would have syringes and all their various drugs.. .. I know any number of athletes on the 1968 Olympic team who had so much scar tissue and so many puncture holes on their backsides that it was difficult to find a fresh spot to give them a new shot. (Hccht, 1985, p. 270)... 

A Revolution in Pharmaceuticals Making the Old Doctor s Bag Truly Potent... 

Doctor s bag A doctor s bag is a large handbag shaped like the traditional doctor s bags, usually made from leather, with two handles. 

Stability studies on degradatiOTi rate by chemical reactions usually also include the investigation of the reaction kinetics. It not only matters if a hydrolysis or an oxidation reaction is taking place but also at which rate and which dependency on pH or temperature is valid reaction kinetics. This science is only very modestly dealt with in this book, just to serve practical purposes in case that a shelf fife has to be roughly re-estimated. Examples of those practical situations are a patient who wants to take his medication with him on a holiday to a tropical country, medicines in a doctor s bag, or parenterals to be prepared for use for which... 

The temperature in a doctor s car may fluctuate between rather extreme values heat as well as freezing. The required storage conditions for the medicines in the doctor s bag will possibly not be met and the expiry date of many medicines may not be valid anymore. In the Netherlands the doctors are advised ... 

The mice studies help us understand chemotherapy s effect on the body. But just what exactly is happening to us as we sit in the doctor s office with a bag of liquid hanging from an IV pole We watch as the chemicals run through a tube and into our veins. What happens next The drugs travel through our bloodstreams. They disperse through the entire body. They are taken up by healthy cells and cancer cells, especially those that are most actively reproducing. 

Halpen S. Doctoring the truth Milburn lets the cats out of the bag. Br Health CareMgt 1998 4 426. 

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