Understanding the medications — the cardiac drugs as a timetable

Sooner or later, the drug names start arriving: clopidogrel, furosemide, pimobendan, atenolol… The best way to understand them is not a list of ingredients but a timetable. HCM's drugs enter the stage in a fixed order, one per act of the disease — and once you know the order, both "why isn't my cat on anything?" and "why did the pills suddenly multiply?" answer themselves. …