"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Older adults with complex medication regimens may make potentially harmful mistakes in taking their drugs as prescribed, a new study shows.
This was conventional wisdom when I was in medical school. It was considered bad form to have elderly patients on multiple medications. But that was before we had a pill for everything, and now we need studies to remind us of what we once knew quite well. posted by Sydney on
3/02/2007 07:43:00 PM
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