| This is quite concerning really 10:56 - Sep 10 with 1360 views | chicoazul |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49639914
More and more of us are becoming dependant on these things, which effects in reality we understand very little about, and which drug companies make absolutely enormous sums of money from (not that that is necessarily a bad thing btw). My best wishes to any TWTDers who use them as they seem on the one hand, important, and on the other, deleterious in their own way. |  |
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| Free the weed man on 10:58 - Sep 10 with 1340 views | Dyland |
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| Free the weed man on 11:00 - Sep 10 with 1338 views | chicoazul |
| Free the weed man on 10:58 - Sep 10 by Dyland |
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When the election campaigning starts I am looking forward to the candidates knocking on my door. I'll be asking their position on a) legalising weed specifically and other currently-illegal drugs generally and b) nuclear power. My vote is up for grabs for the right answers! | |
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| This is quite concerning really on 11:08 - Sep 10 with 1311 views | Guthrum |
Which is why pharmacists, whose job it is to understand these things, play such an important role. My mother (now retired) would often advise her customers, or query with the doctor, if their prescriptions did not go together.
Every medicine is a pay-off between beneficial and unwanted, harmful effects - the incidence of which varies greatly from person to person.
The biggest issue is patients (or relatives) demanding treatments, often following unreliable internet research, with doctors complying due to lack of the familiarity with each individual (how often do you see "your" doctor any more?) and time for consultation which used to be the case. [Post edited 10 Sep 2019 11:12]
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| This is quite concerning really on 11:11 - Sep 10 with 1290 views | StokieBlue |
The drug companies are being hit hard in the US with regards to opioids which is exactly how it should be. One company was fined 500m by a single state last month with cases pending in virtually all other states.
That's before private actions start. It could bankrupt some of them and given what they did to stoke the opioid crisis that's not a bad thing.
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| This is quite concerning really on 12:20 - Sep 10 with 1213 views | Pinewoodblue |
| This is quite concerning really on 11:08 - Sep 10 by Guthrum |
Which is why pharmacists, whose job it is to understand these things, play such an important role. My mother (now retired) would often advise her customers, or query with the doctor, if their prescriptions did not go together.
Every medicine is a pay-off between beneficial and unwanted, harmful effects - the incidence of which varies greatly from person to person.
The biggest issue is patients (or relatives) demanding treatments, often following unreliable internet research, with doctors complying due to lack of the familiarity with each individual (how often do you see "your" doctor any more?) and time for consultation which used to be the case. [Post edited 10 Sep 2019 11:12]
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Sadly there times when drugs are prescribed for someone other than the patient. My wife ,after surgery in Ipswich, went to a different hospital for rehabilitation and was given an amazing number of different drugs.
Months later the Ipswich consultant wasn't happy with drugs prescribed and advised her to slowly wean herself off the more toxic, especially the ones she had been told to take when felt necessary.
She cannot remember anything of the first Christmas she was home, the drugs stole those memories.
What needs to be done is to stop the drugs being prescribed in the first place. |  |
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| This is quite concerning really on 12:38 - Sep 10 with 1166 views | BlueBadger |
| This is quite concerning really on 12:20 - Sep 10 by Pinewoodblue |
Sadly there times when drugs are prescribed for someone other than the patient. My wife ,after surgery in Ipswich, went to a different hospital for rehabilitation and was given an amazing number of different drugs.
Months later the Ipswich consultant wasn't happy with drugs prescribed and advised her to slowly wean herself off the more toxic, especially the ones she had been told to take when felt necessary.
She cannot remember anything of the first Christmas she was home, the drugs stole those memories.
What needs to be done is to stop the drugs being prescribed in the first place. |
Which is why you need pharmacists. In the last few years, We've started trying to include them on ward rounds at my place. It's worked wonders for improving speed of supply and safe prescribing and reducing polypharmacy. |  |
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| This is quite concerning really on 12:53 - Sep 10 with 1130 views | Pinewoodblue |
| This is quite concerning really on 12:38 - Sep 10 by BlueBadger |
Which is why you need pharmacists. In the last few years, We've started trying to include them on ward rounds at my place. It's worked wonders for improving speed of supply and safe prescribing and reducing polypharmacy. |
Pharmacist was part of the team. Drugs were prescribed to make things easier for the team. At one point they carried out a dementia test as the 'team' felt she had memory lost. The person doing it stopped halfway through as she said it was clear it was a waste of time. | |
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| This is quite concerning really on 13:50 - Sep 10 with 1044 views | Guthrum |
| This is quite concerning really on 12:53 - Sep 10 by Pinewoodblue |
Pharmacist was part of the team. Drugs were prescribed to make things easier for the team. At one point they carried out a dementia test as the 'team' felt she had memory lost. The person doing it stopped halfway through as she said it was clear it was a waste of time. |
The system is not infallible, especially in a hospital environment where there may be a different approach to care (happened to someone I know, was put on a palliative terminal pathway, then transferred to another hospital who said she was well enough to do physio and be released, which she eventually was). | |
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| This is quite concerning really on 14:05 - Sep 10 with 1020 views | wkj |
Ryorry and Dolly have already proven beyond all doubt that all we need is magnets |  |
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| This is quite concerning really on 14:07 - Sep 10 with 1011 views | SpruceMoose |
| This is quite concerning really on 14:05 - Sep 10 by wkj |
Ryorry and Dolly have already proven beyond all doubt that all we need is magnets |
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| This is quite concerning really on 14:09 - Sep 10 with 1003 views | lowhouseblue |
| This is quite concerning really on 14:05 - Sep 10 by wkj |
Ryorry and Dolly have already proven beyond all doubt that all we need is magnets |
what do they do with them? stick dolly to the fridge? |  |
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