Excess prescribing of pharmaceuticals is a nightmare for both patients and prescribers. It’s much easier to add one medication after another than to take a patient off any. After all, if one is good, aren’t two or three better? And in countries that lack robust primary care, multiple specialists may prescribe multiple medications without any cross referencing. […]
Category: co-morbidity
In one in three primary care consultations more than one problem is managed. The average number of problems managed is two, but as we get older or if we include mental health problems, closer to five problems are addressed per consultation and at least the same number of medications prescribed. COVID has been blamed for virtually anything that can […]
What will happen to our healthcare services once the acute phase of CoVID-19 has passed is anyone’s guess. The backlog of non-urgent surgery and medical treatment grows daily as physicians not involved in acute life-threatening care are furloughed and patients are reticent to see clinicians for fear of catching CoVID-19, if their offices are even […]
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