Overdosed.

AS you advance through your senior years--I'll be 80 this month--physicians tend to prescribe more and more drugs to keep you going. A resulting problem is that you tend to have more and more adverse reactions, ranging from irritating rashes to life-threatening conditions. I've had three in just the last couple of years. And I'm not alone. According to the Associated Press' Lindsey Tanner, government research shows that each year, more than 700,000 Americans experience reactions serious enough to send them to the emergency room. Doesn't this suggest that physicians and pharmacists should be more careful about prescribing, exploring the likelihood of adverse reactions, and considering the possibility of unhappy interactions with drugs the patient is already taking?