Contraindications Quotes

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don't give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only when they're properly indicated.

Vaccines have played a fundamental role in eradicating terrible illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, and hepatitis. However, they bring a risk associated with side-effects that are usually temporary and surmountable... but, in very rare cases, can be as severe as getting the same disease you're trying to be immune to.

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.