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MDs, pharmacists, other Rx'ers, and medicine geeks: Is there some reason that propranolol is not more widely prescribed for anxiety? Like, in my reality, at all?I have a patient who is elderly, had a bad reaction to benzodiazepines such that nobody sane will ever prescribe them to her, and raging agoraphobia. Her psychiatrist has only offered her ( Read more... )

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I'm not planning on critiquing or criticising surgery at all; I'm ultimately going somewhere completely else with this.

But as a side note, while I was writing, Would you consider that a fault with surgery as a medical practice, that needs to be remedied through better standarization and training?
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(h/t SlateStarCodex)

The Harvard Health Blog (of, yes, Harvard Medical School) posted on Jan 28: Common anticholinergic drugs like Benadryl linked to increased dementia risk [...] A report published online this week in JAMA Internal Medicine offers compelling evidence of a link between long-term use of anticholinergic medications like Benadryl ( Read more... )