http://rangelmd.com/2011/02/fear-and-medication-errors-in-the-er/ Because opinions are like sphincters. Everybody has one. Thu, 16 May 2013 23:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://rangelmd.com/2011/02/fear-and-medication-errors-in-the-er/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 Michael Kirsch, M.D. Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:58:54 +0000 http://rangelmd.com/?p=636#comment-1064 Nicely done. I have a tangential point. You mention that physicians of yesteryear had only 20 or so medicines to keep track of. I wonder if we could take care of 90% or more of folks, with a carefully chosen list of 20 medicines.

]]> http://rangelmd.com/2011/02/fear-and-medication-errors-in-the-er/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 RangelMD Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:56:05 +0000 http://rangelmd.com/?p=636#comment-1018 Good point about Mint.com. But even a national database won’t show whether the patient is correctly taking their meds or not.

]]> http://rangelmd.com/2011/02/fear-and-medication-errors-in-the-er/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 PICU MD Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:21:00 +0000 http://rangelmd.com/?p=636#comment-1015 Unfortunately, EHRs vary in quality in making med rec more facile. Some make it easier and some actually make it harder than on paper. I think the only way to go is a national drug database. If I can go into Mint.com and see what my balances are in 5 different institutions of loans, you’d think there’d be away to pull from the database and to just instantly see what you patient is taking…..

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