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Times Book Review: Too Many Pills

Preventing overmedication may lead to reduced death rates and hospital admissions

27-May-2018

Key points from article :

Polypharmacy can have more complications than the illnesses prescribed for.

When a doctor discontinued 320 nursing home drugs the number of deaths halved.

Big Pharma supports academic theory that you need to treat people who might get sick.

You have to treat 1,000 people with mild hypertension to prevent one stroke.

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Doron Garfinkel

Homecare Hospice Israel Cancer Association & Geriatric-Palliative consultant and specialist in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

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