Pills

I have an extensive medicine cabinet collection

Every once in a while, The Frontier Psychiatrist newsletter gets a little bit literary. Today is one of those days. My book is Inessential Pharmacology. (amazon link)

There is, and what would conservatively referred to as dozens of bottles, a blizzard of pharmaceuticals behind the mirrored glass of my medicine cabinet.  During our second year of medical school, we had an assignment to go into a patient's home. This was see what their life was like. My friend Jackie had a patient with multiple sclerosis. She came back from that home visit. With a glint of sadistic glee in her eye, she was thrilled to inform me that I had many more medications than her patient with a disabling autoimmune condition.

I've got a lot of medicines. I've also tried a lot of medicines.  One of the problems with medicines is that, because too much money is made in them, for people who are not you, you can be afraid to throw them out.  They pile up.  Even if you're not taking them anymore. But especially if you…