Sunil Kripalani, Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine, Vanderbilt University: Health Literacy, Care Transitions, and Keeping All Those Medications Straight
August 18, 2010
Imagine you have suffered a heart attack. After 3 days in the hospital, you are being discharged home. Your nurse is going over the discharge documents, including your medication list and prescriptions. Imagine she tells you, “Your doctor is starting you on 2 new blood thinners for your myocardial infarction. She wants you to stop taking your doxazosin. Here’s a script for atorvastatin 20mg; take this instead of the simvastatin. She wants you to double up your metoprolol to 100mg twice daily and take amlodipine 5mg, which ...
Dennee discusses an important drug interaction between grapefruit and statin medications. She also shares some helpful tips to discuss with patients who ask you if they can eat or drink grapefruit while they’re taking statin medications.
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