Meeting with Dr. Klompas

Dr. Klompas was a pharmacoepidemiology that spoke to us in great detail about some of the current problems that are being faced in hospitals. His assistant was nice enough to meet us at a local restaurant and walk us to his conference room. Dr. Klompas shared with us general information about his profession and then opened it up to an open question forum. Our group asked him a wide variety of questions that were concerned with everything from natural medicines, prescribed medicines, infection control, to the best and worst feelings he has felt during his career. Summary by Ross A.

David M. – Doctor Summary

Dr. Klompas is an infection control specialist (pharmacoepidemiologist), and he talked a lot about drugs and their effects on the body. He explained some of the worst cases he’s had, and one of them involved flesh-eating bacteria. Apparently it is highly painful, and it required defacing surgery to be dealt with. But he also pointed to the good things that have happened in his career: people’s lives have been saved because of his efforts. Dr. Klompas was highly optimistic to the future of medicine, and he said that world-wide disease prevention would be more likely to occur with more doctor-moms. If many moms were trained with basic medical skills, the cases of disease would be much less. He said that he enjoys his work, and he likes to help people in general. Will science save us or slay us? He said save.