When I ask for a list of what was prescribed to elderly relatives in the hospital while they were there, it’s like I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO EVER ASKED THAT QUESTION.Some people are really, really, really stupid when it comes to trusting the medical industry. Really stupid. Did I mention they are stupid ?
Your ELDERLY relatives were in the hospital maybe because they were ELDERLY...which meany that they took their meds and lived a LONG time=elderly.
You are absolutely correct when you say some people are stupid...really stupid, and yes you mentioned that some are really stupid when it comes to trusting the medical profession....REALLY STUPID....those are the ones who don't trust the profession...REALLY...VERY....ACTUALLY...ABNORMALLY...UNBELIEVEABLY...stupid.....PATHETIC!!!!!!
When I ask for a list of what was prescribed to elderly relatives in the hospital while they were there, it’s like I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO EVER ASKED THAT QUESTION.
Your ELDERLY relatives were in the hospital maybe because they were ELDERLY...which meany that they took their meds and lived a LONG time=elderly.
So you don't bother to ask what pills you are given by doctors, you just take them ? You don't keep track of what you take ? So if you're in the hospital for a week, and were given 10 pills a day, you'd prefer to not know what pills you were given ? I'm being silly - I hope - I'm sure you would want to participate in your own care to know what you are given, and what instructions come with each pill.
If you read the information that is available from manufacturers, NIH, etc., on each medicine, you can find out about their pharmacokinetics:
(from Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacokinetics)
* Liberation - the process of release of a drug from the pharmaceutical formulation.[3][4] See also IVIVC.
* Absorption - the process of a substance entering the blood circulation.
* Distribution - the dispersion or dissemination of substances throughout the fluids and tissues of the body.
* Metabolization (or biotransformation, or inactivation) – the recognition by the organism that a foreign substance is present and the irreversible transformation of parent compounds into daughter metabolites.
* Excretion - the removal of the substances from the body. In rare cases, some drugs irreversibly accumulate in body tissue."
This is the reality of "how medicines work".
When your relatives' cardiologist and nephrologist both tell you that their medicine(s) are indeed slowly destroying the kidneys, it makes you start "believing" in the "myth" that medicines ought to be taken with the utmost care. Multiple times per year, the nephrologist monitors just how bad things are and orders courses of action to forestall damage as best he can.