It is all about the money these days, not helping people. My bosses mother was on over 25 medications and I kept telling him she was being over medicated. Several months ago, he went to the nursing home to see her and she slept the whole time, her lunch was brought in and she continued to sleep, afterawhile, they came took the tray away. He was there for supper also, same thing, she was sleeping, supper came and they took the tray away. This happened 3 days in a row. He was there, all day for 3 days and this is what her days were like. He started questioning the nurse and she wasn't alarmed. He raised a ruckus and demanded the doctor be called.
The doctor reviewed her medication chart and took over half of them away. They have been prescribing medications to her without regard to ANY of the side effects and each side effects calls for another medication... They are killing our elderly with their over prescribing of all these medications.
If you have elderly parents, you better get the name of every drug they are given and research the side effects on the internet before they ever take it.
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