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Dr John Garner: Prescribing a cure for elderly patients'pill-popping culture

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Published Date: 12 May 2009
MY PRACTICE is privileged to look after the medical needs of 300 patients who are resident in care or nursing homes. One of the more time-consuming tasks is the checking, writing and signing of several thousand prescriptions each month.
Each of these 300 patients is on at least one prescribed medication and many are on ten, 12 and up to 17 prescribed products. Most of our patients are admitted to the nursing or care home following a period in hospital so all the long lists of medica...



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