Doc Talk: Reducing patients' pill burden
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Polypharmacy - the concurrent use of multiple medications - is important in the treatment of heart failure patients.
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Lim Choon Pin
SINGAPORE - "Doc, must I really take another pill?" Mr Tan (not his real name) asked. He was already on seven different medications - four for his heart condition, one for high blood pressure, one for cholesterol and another for diabetes.
Now I had to convince him to take his eighth pill - every day.