Can I take pain medications if I am also taking Coumadin??
The following story is fictional but is comprised from encounters with a few different patients I have seen over the years. I have changed details and combined the stories in order to comply with my patients' privacy.
I had a patient come in the other day and tell me that she had terrible knee pain but that there was really nothing that could be done because she was on Coumadin?. She had only come to see me because I had helped...
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