In an opinion piece published in Medical Economics, Dr. Nick Schneeman, Chief Medical Officer for Lifespark, shared his thoughts on how doctors should help consumers, mainly seniors, cut back on prescription drugs.
It’s one of the most common medical routines in America, but it has been harming the health of hundreds of people every day.
You visit a cardiologist about your blood pressure, so she writes a prescription to treat it. Then, for your arthritis and back pain, you see a different specialist, who adds different meds. By the time you finish appointments with the urologist and the neurologist, you’ve got a pill organizer at home that rattles like maracas every time you move it.
The sad reality is that too many Americans are ingesting a daily cocktail of Big Pharma prescribed by multiple doctors who typically don’t talk to each other or know each other.
The biggest takeaway: Every consumer should be talking with their doctors about the number and type of prescriptions they take. Do you really need every drug in your medicine cabinet?
