ACCEPTING “NORMAL AGING” IS WHY YOU’RE GETTING WORSE
Her patients come in with no fewer than 10 to 20 prescriptions. Multiple providers. Nobody talking to each other. Duplicates of the same drug class. Brown bags full of medications nobody has reviewed together in years.
This is a new episode of Diagnose This. Dr. Z is joined by Cari Caraway, FNP-C, FMACP, a nurse practitioner who has spent 30 years in healthcare and the last decade in gerontology — watching what happens when the system decides you're old enough to stop asking questions.
The most common thing she hears from her patients isn't a symptom. It's: I knew something was wrong, but…
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