Ep 60: Five Things About The Complexity of Medications With Professor Ian Coombes

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Professor Ian Coombes. Ian is the Director of Pharmacy at RBWH and an expert in safety thinking. Ian unpacks the complexity of medications.

Ian’s Five Things:

1. It’s never JUST a medicine
2. Medicines should always be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
3. MIMS should not be taken as gospel.
4. The initial medication history is never the full story.
5. Prescribing, the devil is in the details.