He came in for a "tune-up." He was 64 years old, with a "historyof noncompliance," according to the resident, and he hadn'ttaken his diabetes or cardiac medications for weeks. We weren'tquite sure why. He was alert, he appeared to be intelligentand interested in getting well, and he was able to get his prescriptionsfilled at a reduced cost. Before he went home, we explainedwhy he needed to take his medicines and reviewed the frequencyand doses with him several times. He told us he would followup with his doctor (though he couldn't remember the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Marcus is an assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami.
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