“Any doctor who can reduce the polypharmacy (too many medicines) that plagues many older people would be doing a good deed”
in my opinion, the number one goal of any geriatrician should be to analyze and then reduce the number of medications to the fewest possible. Second, analyze the medications’ CYP450 and other interactions, and prescribe different versions if either or both can be eliminated. Third, eliminate deadly drugs like amiodarone. Fourth, eliminate deadly combinations like the kidney-destroying “triple whammy” of NSAIDs, ACE/ARBs, and diuretics. Fifth, if at all possible eliminate quality-of-life-destroying drugs such as beta blockers. etc.
That would do a lot of good. And pain Big Pharma greatly.
Beta-Blockers
I think they have taken my “Edge”
away a bit...