
How the Side Effects of Medication can make you Feel Old
Leo came to see me because he felt that his current array of doctors-an internist, a cardiologist, a rheumatologist, and a psychiatrist-just weren’t making him well. A lawyer in his mid-50s, Leo had gone for a routine physical and was found to have high cholesterol and mildly elevated blood pressure, two conditions that had led to a veritable cascade of medications. “My internist put me on Lipitor to lower my cholesterol and hydrochlorothiazide to lower my blood pressure. He