Filling one prescription is simple, I do it a hundred times a day. But when an older patient comes in on twelve different medications and asks me if they all still make sense together, my mind swims. Which ones clash, which ones are no longer needed, what the whole picture even is, feels like far more than I can hold at once.
More people experience this than they realize.
You can fill a prescription, but managing a patient's whole medication picture overwhelms you.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.