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At 9:45am on April 16, 2008, aliza sherman said…: Wow, P. It boggles my mind that doctors, nurses and other health practitioners do not recognize the signs of CO poisoning. We really do have to take charge of our own health & be fully engaged in how we are feeling. With your background in healthcare, we could work to get the word out there to not just educate the public but the medical (and veterinary) communities. Up here in Alaska, CO poisoning is all too common.

About Me:: Medical librarian in the midwest, also involved in evidence based healthcare, emerging and social technologies, and virtual worlds.

About My Carbon Monoxide Experience:: A case of missed details. A 6 inch hole in the water heater exhaust pipe was missed by the inspector, the CO poisoning was misdiagnosed by the nurse practitioner, and on and on. It turned out that I was exceptionally vulnerable to this because of profound lifelong anemia, but even when that was caught and rectified, it was still another couple years before we figured out that I had not suffered a freakish pneumonia but rather CO poisoning. We figured it out when I was in a small airplane that had recently had its engine replaced and was venting into the cabin. I recognized the sensation as familiar, finally putting 2 and 2 together for myself, which my doc later endorsed.

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