Goomba wrote:
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> Nancy Young wrote:
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> > 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
> >
> I'm curious as to which medicines were really prescribed? 30 meds is
> VERY unusual in my experience. Renal or transplant patients might be the
> most dependent on routine meds, but 30 different drugs would still be
> pushing it....?

Not necessarily, for geriatric patients who are seeing multiple
prescribers. A former neighbour of ours (who died at age 87) was taking
about that many different Rxs. Every time she went in she wanted a
prescription for some illness. Sometimes real but often imagined,
usually something she had recently read about in some 'health'
newsletter. In these days of high medical liability settlements, it's
often 'safer' to just prescribe rather than deny the patient's wishes.
The woman's daughter didn't give a s*** in any case. Each of her doctors
just gave her a scrip and she got them filled at different pharmacies.

The pills are probably what killed her; she wasn't really very ill other
than that.