Rowena Blythe brought in a carrier bag. It contained fourteen medicines, six of which had been discontinued between two and seven years earlier.
The call happens at day three and lasts as long as it needs to. The median is nineteen minutes; the longest recorded on this service is fifty-two.
Deprescribing is done one agent at a time with a defined review window, and the patient holds a written record of what was stopped, when, and what to watch for.
What’s in the cupboard is the real prescription. The record is an aspiration.
Illustrative composite
Nothing here is about taking fewer medicines as a goal in itself. It is about the list matching the intention, which is a different and duller objective.
“I kept them in case,” she says. “In case of what, I could not tell you.”
