Balancing Emotional and Physical Health
By: Beth Biedrzycki, Pharm. D., BCGP at Personal Care Medical Associates Like many Americans I routinely turn on the evening news after work to catch on the day’s events. It …
Category: Prescription Drugs
Spring Cleaning the Medicine Cabinet
Written by: Beth Biedrzycki, Pharm. D., BCGP, at PCMA Every spring we are reminded to check the batteries in our smoke detectors and move our clocks ahead as part of …
One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill
With the amount of medication that is prescribed to the elderly it is not surprising that many patients are overwhelmed, which can lead to nonadherence. Medication nonadherence is the practice …
Polypharmacy: A Prescription for Chaos
Polypharmacy is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “the practice of administering many different medicines especially concurrently for the treatment of a single disease” and “the concurrent use of multiple medications by a patient to treat usually coexisting conditions and which may result in adverse drug interactions.” Pharmacists encounter polypharmacy daily, with elderly patients taking 10, […]