by Howard E. LeWine, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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March 26, 2007

Harvard Medical Video: Avoiding Drug Interactions

August 18, 2008 11:46 AM EDT
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The FDA just issued a new warning about a potentially serious drug interaction. If you take amiodarone (Cordarone, Pacerone) and simvastatin (Zocor, Vytorin), talk with your doctor about switching to a different statin. With people taking so many different drugs, the risks of some drug interaction are hight. Dr. LeWine offers his advice. How do you manage the interaction question?

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Comments: 1

Sue B.© The Sting IS Worse Than the Buzz Aug 18, 2008, 11:17pm EDT
When I see these commercials about so many meds and articles like this telling patients what to tell their doctors, I sometimes wonder who should be going to med school, the patients or the doctors?

I have to believe that patients' prescriptions must be in a database that can be easily accessed, and the physician should be able to determine if there is potential for harm through these various drug interactions before they are prescribed, or would a pharmacist be a better authority?

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