Cara Santamaria

And so these individuals are recommending active surveillance if the lesions are changing color, if they're bleeding, if there's growth of the lesion.

Maybe at that case, removal is warranted.

But they're saying in many conditions, we should not be doing it, quote, just to be safe because it's actually not safer.

It could cause more harm than good.

They do say, of course, wear your sunscreen, folks.

That is important.

And then the final one in this write-up has to do with levothyroxine, which is a very commonly prescribed thyroid drug.

And this happens when individuals have hypothyroidism.

Yeah, it can lead to weight gain.

It can lead to a lack of energy, hair and skin dryness.

Increasingly, doctors are prescribing this for not just hypothyroidism, but subclinical hypothyroidism, which is, you know, they don't quite meet criteria, but it looks like they're progressing there.

And very often when people take this drug, they do end up taking it for life.

But interestingly, there are studies now that show that among older people with the condition that

it offered no apparent benefit.

So it didn't seem to affect their symptoms of hypothyroidism at all.

And here's the thing that I haven't mentioned, and Steve, I'm sure you've seen this a lot in the neurology clinic.

I see it hugely in the cancer clinic, is there is a major problem with polypharmacy.

Very often, older adults have collected physicians along the lifespan.

Oh, I have my specialist over here, my specialist over there.

They wrote me that drug.