Too many people take too many pills

Too many people take too many pills

"Medical systems are set up to put people on drugs, not take them off"

As a pharmacist in a big hospital in Adelaide, Emily Reeve would often see patients overwhelmed by the number of drugs they took each day. "They'd say 'I take so many medicines that I rattle when I walk'," she recalls. And she worried that some of the medications these patients were on seemed useless, or even harmful.

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