Letters: Dixie Regional Medical Center's dilemma

Published: Tuesday, Jan. 22 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

FOR SERIES ON ST. GEORGE GROWTH -- Exterior of the new Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George Thursday, February 16, 2006. Photo by Jason Olson

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Summary

An example of why citizens become disgusted with government regulators: for several months, the inpatient pharmacy at Dixie Regional Medical Center, due to its unique equipment and training, provided a St. George resident with a special steroid eye drop compound to stabilize and heal a delicate cornea transplant. The inpatient pharmacy mixed the eye drop weekly, and the patient gratefully picked it up from the hospital's outpatient pharmacy.

But then, the regulators arrived at the hospital. They absurdly insisted that it is illegal for the hospital's inpatient pharmacy to mix a compound, which is subsequently dispensed by that hospital's outpatient pharmacy.

It must be stopped, or the outpatient pharmacy is breaking the law.

Don Miller

St. George

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Shimlau

SAINT GEORGE, UT

toosmartforyou; Like you I thought it was a n awfully short and inconclusive article, and like you I would hop a reporter would pick it up and do a story with real research, I liked your comment.

9:11 a.m. Jan. 22, 2013
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toosmartforyou

Farmington, UT

This is a quick-and-dirty story designed to grab people's attention but not provide any beneficial information. Is that really news or just sensationalism? Why didn't the reporter research the regulations and find out why they are in More..

8:32 a.m. Jan. 22, 2013
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Truthseeker

SLO, CA

Re:toosmartforyou

Well said.

My guess: this is related to the numerous deaths and illnesses last year from fungal menigitis which occurred as a result of unsafe, unsanitary, under-regulated conditions at a "compounding" More..

8:45 a.m. Jan. 22, 2013
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