On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:08:56 -0500, "jmcquown" >
wrote:

>The day she got home her doctor was here along with a nurse from the
>hospice. She hadn't been given any of those 30 meds before discharge so she
>was already much more cognizant when she got home. Her doctor reviewed the
>list of those 30 meds with me and explained why the combination of all of
>those drugs, particularly in an elderly patient, is contraindicated. Many
>of them were for treating the exact same thing, duplications if you will.
>Mom was just fine the next day, talking to me, making perfect sense. The
>hospital made it sound like she was a raving lunatic. (When I went to see
>her it was indeed as if her mind was gone.) Well no wonder, look what you
>people did to her!
>/rant off

With Baby Boomers entering old age, this sort of thing will eventually
be legislated against and there will be hospitals specializing in
gerontology if the other hospitals don't fall into line.


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