The Pill Problem

This time I would like to write my suggestions about healthcare. It's mainly about the dosage of the pills. Same pills have several dosages available at pharmacies. Unfortunately, they bring more problem than simplifying things. Most current medical doctors increase their prescriptions if a patient's measured values do not improve that much or the patient's complaints are not resolved. Not in all but most of the time such increased dosages create adverse effect on the patient. My proposal is (except for emergency cases) not to give high dosage medicine to the patient to take at once. Instead, the patient should take pills several times a day. Supposedly simplified medication by overloading the medicine at one go, from my point of view is way more problematic than solving problems. Taking medicine is a serious thing. Simplifying the process by creating more fundamental problems is more serious. In the age of mobile apps and advanced pill boxes, multi doses per day can easily be handled by almost all patients.

Trying to cut pills into pieces is also very bad idea. Have the scientists who develop them tried to cut such things into perfect 50-50 parts with household appliances? Just manufacture the medicines at its minimum dose and the patient takes one more depending on their health. When I was a child there was a medicine with 6 pills per box. On the outside of the box, it stated that children with certain age and weight should take one pill. Youngsters with certain weight should take 2 pills and the adults should take 3 pills. The pills were small. With today's mindset they would have developed three different sized pills to minimize the swallow multiplier to one. Sorry I don't accept it.

One last point regarding supplements, especially multi vitamins. Their pills are gigantic. Most of these resellers originate from USA or sell to USA. In USA the manufactures design almost everything with millions of warning messages all around the packages not to be sued. However, those multi supplement pills are immense. They 100% pose asphyxiation hazard !!!  How can a country with very rigid healthcare control body misses such things. And in a country where people sue companies with so many reasons haven't resolved this problem. Unfortunately, this problem is 100% valid for the Europe as well.

Lower the pill doses and set a restriction for the size of the pills. I guess modern human beings are intelligent enough to take multiple pills one after the other to reach a certain dose !