and risk profile.
The Breakdown in Care
One of the greatest drivers of polypharmacy is the fragmentation of modern healthcare. Many patients, especially those with long-term illnesses, see several different specialists. You might go to a cardiologist, a rheumatologist, and a urologist, and each doctor prescribes a new medicine without a comprehensive check of your full, current medication list.
Often, doctors fail to ask a simple but essential question: “Are we treating a real disease, or are we treating a symptom caused by another pill I or someone else prescribed?”
