Dr. Barry Baines

And drug interactions.

I remember my first pharmacology lecture.

The first thing the professor said was, just remember, all drugs are poisons.

And, you know, you watch these commercials and it seems that it talks about all these great things.

And then they go through this list for like 30 seconds of all the side effects of medications that make you say, oh, my God, you know, do I really want to take?

Do I really want to take that?

Because all of these side effects are extremely problematic and that doesn't even get into the drug interactions.

You know, it used to be, you know, there were just a few drugs with their interactions.

Now it's just about everything.

And I know that there are some apps online where you can put in your drugs and

And, you know, kind of red flag the ones that are, you know, particularly problematic.

Because there's no way you can memorize all this, all the stuff.

And unless you have a PharmD next to you, which is always a good thing.

Yeah, yeah, right, right.

So let me ask a couple questions here.

Okay.

with those kind of things.

It's just impossible to, you know, to keep up from a physician-patient relationship.

So it has to be partnership with patients, has to be a partnership in the community, and we just have to keep thinking about what to do.

But, you know, realistically, people look for the convenience of the, you know,