This article describes the experience of initiating a scheme for the proactive prescribing of a core group of drugs for palliative care patients. The medication is retained in the patient's own home, with supporting professional and patient information, in anticipation of the need to use them. ...
Exploring the use of extended release opioids at shortened dosing intervals in people with chronic pain and high risk medication or substance use BackgroundCritical attention to rational opioid prescribing has emerged from the opioid epidemic in North America. Individuals with chronic pain are prescr.....
Still, in Philadelphia, the X-waiver's removal isn't a panacea. Penn runs a program called CareConnect that's designed to get patients buprenorphine almost immediately; while staff there do help patients who have lost access to their medication because aphysicianhas left a practice, other patie...
Aside from the therapy, the person with anxiety disorder is often advised to avoid alcohol, drugs, and caffeine and encouraged to get regular exercise and have a healthy lifestyle instead. Another form of anxiety relief is medication, where the patient can get drug prescriptions such as benzodiaz...
so in reality your doctor will almost certainly write a prescription for a cholesterol lowering medication – explaining to you, that if you don’t lower those ‘terrible numbers’ you will suffer a heart attack – or a stroke and …. well you know the rest. Doctors are very good at usin...
Recently in one of the groups,a guy posted that he was taking hydroxychloroquine for our condition, the same as what “cures the virus.” That really upset me, because first of all, no one takes that medication for our condition.It’s the wrong medication. Second, that medication also doe...
Physical Examination: the patient was conscious with a normal general condition. The pulse was floating and rapid, the tongue was red with a thin layer of white fur. There were many large pieces of red maculae on the skin of whole body, in which there were many groups of crowded papules...
appropriate training. The scope of this authority varies state-to-state, but can include all aspects of medication management from testing and counseling to prescribing and dispensing medication for HCV treatment [32]. However, further exploration of the receptivity and preferences for such a model ...
Just a few decades ago, teenagers and adults battling with acne were advised to remove junk food from their diet. They were given a bottle of over-the-counter pimple medication and then sent on their way. Sadly, many of these teenagers experienced little to no change in the condition of ...
Dr Innes –“Had I received the information I requested five months ago, I would have been in a better position to refer you toourclinic that specialises in the prescribing of those drugs for a review of the matter” Julia–“I’m not responsible for what the GP does and doesn’t do”...