A Visitor to My Website

[Guest]

I had a visitor on my website from Vatican City. Do you suppose the Big Guy is taking warfarin and was surfin the web?

 

[geebee]

Could be. He is always closely watched because of concern about losing balance and falling. Maybe they are worried about bruising or bleeding.
OR - maybe it's his doctor. How awful would it be to mess up HIS coumadin level?
Smiles,
Gina

 

[Guest]

There is a theory that Russian dictator Josef Stalin was killed with warfarin back in 1953. He was always suspicious that someone was trying to poison him so he randomly selected someone to taste his food before he ate. The plotters figured out that they could put a few mg in his food every meal and that the random tasters would never get a therapeutic dose. Meanwhile his INR (except that they didn't use that method at the time) went higher every day. He eventually died of a brain hemorrhage. Of course his doctor had to be part of the plot because had he given Stalin a dose of vitamin K, he would have recovered. The he would probably have slaughtered a few more millions and sent hundreds of thousands more off to the Siberian prisons.

 

[JimChicago]

I guess that's what they mean by an 'off label' use of pharmaceutical products.

 

[tommy]

Fitting for Stalin to be killed with rat poison.