Patients are often the victims of medication creep
Martha arrives for an appointment with her new primary care provider. She hesitantly hands over her pill boxes at the nurse’s request; it seems to take forever to enter them all into the computer.
“You are taking a lot of blood pressure pills,” he comments. The doctor comes in and after a brief introduction, notes that she is taking five medications for her blood pressure.
“Five?” Martha exclaims in disbelief. She hadn’t …
