Question everything. It's what I do too as a family advocate.
Doctors seem to be more and more aggressive about prescribing additional drugs. I recently stopped them from adding drugs for my relative. She has a medical device that transmits readings of her condition daily. The medical team has a seemingly arbitrary goal that, when exceeded, they immediately want to up meds even though she is asymptomatic and most importantly she has not been hospitalized for the condition which she was l hospitalized for annually before intervention—even while even being nine points over goal. Instead of them resetting the goal based on actual performance, they keep trying to add drugs to get her to a false target. The drugs themselves have actually led to her hospitalization because they are extremely powerful.
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