The Entire Matter Was Iatrogenic*

Are falls preventable? Here's a instance of inappropriate attention past times the medical community that caused them. Note my friend--even every bit a doctor--was unable to conk the proper attention for her mother:

I bring to say y'all virtually my 93 twelvemonth onetime mom:

For years at the nursing dwelling they kept adding blood delineate per unit of measurement area medicines to process her recalcitrant blood pressure. She was falling to a greater extent than than ane time a day, disoriented as well as largely wheelchair fountain since the staff constitute using the chair prevented falls. (They would bicycle her to meals, etc.) She spent most of her days inwards bed.

Shortly earlier she moved to the dementia unit of measurement the MD came to come across her as well as said she was on also much blood delineate per unit of measurement area medication.  He noted that onetime people needed higher pressures, something I had been trying to say her previous doctors for a yoke of years.

Bottom line--he stops all exactly ane blood delineate per unit of measurement area medication. I inquire them to seat her on an antidepressant, as well as she is directly walking around without fifty-fifty a walker. We fifty-fifty took her to IHOP as well as the grocery shop as well as she had to a greater extent than stamina than always before. She is happy. 

The entire affair was iatrogenic! 
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*Definition:  Induced inadvertently past times a physician or surgeon or past times medical handling or diagnostic procedures.

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