- 70 percent of doctors treating Medicare patients flunked an
exam on their knowledge of prescribing for older adults. - The majority of physicians who were asked to take the exam
refused, often giving as their reason that they had a “lack of
interest in the subject.” - 48 percent of patients taking three or more drugs were given
drugs with one or more harmful interactions with other drugs. - Every minute, two people are hospitalized for adverse drug
reactions (1,500,000 a year) and there is a death every five
minutes and 15 seconds (100,000 a year). - Every three-and one-quarter minutes, someone suffers drug-induced or drug-worsened memory loss (163,000 a year).
It is Reversible if you know which drug was the cause!
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