Find a DE-ESCALATION DOCTOR for GRANDMA

Suneel Dhand is a physician, writer, and YouTuber. He is Co-Founder at DocsDox. Follow him on YouTube and Instagram.

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Pram on September 4, 2020 at 7:06 pm

As a hospitalist trained in geriatrics, polypharmacy is one of my main focuses in hospitalized patients.
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Pamela Hurt on September 5, 2020 at 11:50 am

Polypharmacy has been a large and growing problem for several decades. I remember how proud my aging Mom was that she kept her (arm-long) list of medications up-to-date. It makes me so sad in retrospect. She was so trusting and practitioners kept loading them on. By the time she ended up in a nursing home, no one cared to take the time (no one had the time?) to take a step back and evaluate all the drugs she was being given.

I’m not an anti-vaxer or any other kind of science-doubting extremist, but I am so resolved to keep myself off the “health” care treadmill now that I am getting old.
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Cornel on September 5, 2020 at 5:43 pm

Well said.

Thanks.

Cornel.
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