{"id":1892,"date":"2016-05-10T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2016-05-10T22:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T22:04:03","slug":"bag-of-pills-is-it-necessary-fewer-medications-is-an-achievable-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bag of Pills&#8217;: Is It Necessary?  Fewer medications is an achievable goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today\u00a0by <a class=\"author-email\" href=\"mailto:j.frieden@medpagetoday.com\">Joyce Frieden\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<i>News Editor, MedPage Today \u00a0<\/i>WASHINGTON &#8212; Polypharmacy is a difficult problem for many physicians who treat older patients, but there are steps they can take to cut down on their patients&#8217; medications,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/biographies\/shah-amit-a-m-d\/bio-20113894\" target=\"_blank\">Amit Shah, MD<\/a>, said here at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/MeetingCoverage\/ACP\/\" target=\"_blank\">American College of Physicians <\/a>annual meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-content\">\n<p>&#8220;I do a lot of medical student and resident teaching, and whenever I teach this topic, I like to say, &#8216;As a geriatrician, I have cured more disease by stopping medications than starting them,'&#8221; said Shah, who is at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz. &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit of an overstatement but it gets people&#8217;s attention&#8221; because they never thought about fixing problems by taking medications away rather than adding things on.&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/MeetingCoverage\/ACP\/57803?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2016-05-10&amp;eun=g592963d0r\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today\u00a0by Joyce Frieden\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0News Editor, MedPage Today \u00a0WASHINGTON &#8212; Polypharmacy is a difficult problem for many physicians who treat older patients, but there are steps they can take to cut <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1892\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[21,728,42,727],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-drugs","tag-medications","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-polypharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}