On Dec 11, 1:28*pm, "Debbie" > wrote:
> "Arri London" > wrote in message
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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..
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> >> > nancy
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> >> 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....?
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> > 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.
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> > The pills are probably what killed her; she wasn't really very ill other
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> Funny, the 30 different orders for the meds doesn't bother me. *However, the
> pharmacist and the nurses writing them up and dispensing them all should
> have questioned it. *Where I worked it was expected of the nurses. *We would
> have been disciplined or terminated for allowing drug interactions to occur.
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Here in hospitals registered nurses need to be aware of medicine
contradictions, this is, to be sure interactions do not occur. If I
thought there were contradictions I would not administer the medicines
and check with patients doctor. And then, if I thought doctor was
wrong I would not administer contradictory medicines. Then of course,
pharmacist need to be aware of contradictions too.

Kind Regards
Paul