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A "medical cocktail" or more commonly called a "drug cocktail" or "medication conctail" is the prescribing by a physician of several drugs to be used in combination with each other to gain the best treatment over time. For example, the time people hear about "med coctails" are when a family member, relative, or neighbor has cancer and says they are given a "drug cocktail". The person may receive several chemotherapy drugs at the same time, for example. Or, the cancer patient may be prescribed 3 or more meds to be taken together or on the same days/times to reduce pain.
Doctors sometimes use the term "cocktail" but laypersons also use it simply to mean, "Boy, I'm on a bunch of meds!"
It is important to note, though, that doctors use their expertise to titrate different meds based on how each works and how one med potentiates another or how a second med reduces the side effects of another med.
A "cocktail" is NOT just giving someone a bunch of meds without any reason or treatment goal.
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