Dr. Barry Baines
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Just take the medication and it's the magic pill and you lose weight.
And with the GLP-1s, people are losing a lot of weight.
I just wanted to follow up with Dr. Jackson on the pharmacogenomics.
Because that's very important.
I think what you were talking about with people getting medications that are not going to be as effective.
just mention how easy is it to get pharmacogenomic testing and, you know, where does that fit into things?
I mean, I could see it for, for Medicaid, you know, for chronic diseases like, you know, high blood pressure, right.
You know, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, certainly there's a, you know, a host of them, but from a practically, how do we get that done?
What's the, what does the landscape look like when you look in your crystal ball for pharmacogenomics?
Cause it's very fascinating to me and really makes sense is, you know, you get a drug for you that will work for you.
And so they could look at multiple medications with that one swap.
So you can get like a panel, as it were, of medications that would be good for you or ones to avoid because it's not going to do much for you.
I wish I had access to that when I was in practice.
And I just want to, I don't know, double piggyback.
on what Dr. Ronda and Dr. Aja were talking about with the ideas that the information that quite honestly, it's not the physician.
We can't, it's just too much.