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?”
Bad drug reactions are a catastrophic problem. They cause about 10% of all hospital stays and are shockingly cited as the fourth leading cause of death in the world! Yet, studies suggest that more than 90% of drug side effects are never properly reported or documented by patients or doctors. Patients simply stay quiet, they feel worse and worse, and they never think to ask if the very medicines meant to help are actually the source of their problems. This silence is dangerous and underscores why talking
