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Contact to real patients during COVID-19 times is difficult. But who says real patients are required when there are abundant examples of drug (mis)use presentedin the media in form of movies or TV episodes. The question is though: is the depiction of medication or drugs in the media correct? Pharmacy students at LMU have put their digital time during lockdown to good use by browsing movies and TV serials for examples in order to put their budding pharmaceutical knowledge and skills to the test. © 2020 Deutscher Apotheker Verlag Stuttgart.
Therapeutic procedures are dictated by burden and duration of disease, previous therapies and comorbidity. Possible triggers are to be taken into consideration and eliminate whenever possible.
