What becomes more difficult as we get older? 

There is no denying the importance of drugs to treat many diseases. However, this therapeutic arsenal we carry with us, can bea double-edged sword. There are currently worrying trends, namelyoverdiagnosis, which leads to overtreatment. Over time, a person, as they getolder, accumulates several diagnoses, which can correspond to many medications,and sometimes drug cocktails. And as one of my bosses once said at theSaint-Luc hospital during my internship (over 30 years ago): “Beyond sixmedications within the same person, you can no longer understand anything.”