Emma Wiseman Is an 85-Year-Old Widow and Retired Elementary School

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Emma Wiseman is an 85-year-old widow and retired elementary school teacher. She lives alone and her closest relatives live about an hour away. She has a past medical history of breast cancer, hypertension, and osteoporosis. Emma currently takes six medications. She has been having difficulty opening her medication bottles and decided to put all of her pills into one container. After doing this she realizes that some of them look the same and she is unsure which medication she should take with her dinner. Emma reports that she has had decreased appetite and weight loss over the last three days. She may be suffering from ____. ​

• A)a medication error
• B)medication side effects
• C)anorexia
• D)cross reactivity

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