MaryL wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote

>> It was ridiculous. Her gerontologist had reduced her prescriptions
>> from nine down to three based on lab work, then in the hospital they
>> ramped her back up to nine and handed me prescriptions for thirty by
>> the time they sent her home.

> hospital." Anything in a hospital--even an aspirin--would need a
> doctor's prescription, at least in my experience. I went through
> many of the same problems as you did with regard to too many
> prescriptions for my mother, some of which caused horrendous
> side-effects or were contraindicated. Still, I needed to work back
> through each physician to determine the source. As I said, it's not
> really "the hospital." I do agree, though, that the multiplicity of
> physicians, nurses, aides, technicians, etc. somehow seems to result
> in far too much medication for many patients, especially the elderly.

I have the think "the hospital" gets something out of every time
a doctor stops to visit and writes a prescription. Who is looking
out for these helpless people, where no one thought anything of
her being on thirty medications. Here you go, just give her these.

nancy