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Nursing Home Residents Often Fatally Overmedicated

  • January 18, 2005

One of the most popular articles on my Web site is the multi-part series, Modern Health Care System is the Leading Cause of Death, I ran last summer. It placed the breakdown of our health care system in part on the shoulders of doctors who largely prescribe far too many unnecessary medicines and procedures. New research that tracked the number of recent nursing home fatalities underscores those concerns. Residents who were treated with drugs for common problems -- arthritis,...