He Lowered Drug Use by 27% Across Thousands of Patients || Shane Bishop

That's very cool.

Yeah.

You said guessing with medication needs to stop.

When did you first say that, and, like, what did people around you kind of say? Because it is a gigantic problem throughout the world.

Oh, it's a massive problem, so...

You know, I can sit here and discuss all the issues and concerns with medication, individuals who are averaging 10, 12, 14 different prescriptions in their home.

You know, what happens when an individual is first diagnosed with a chronic condition or a number of chronic conditions and, you know, their physician prescribes a number of therapies, one of which is likely a bunch of different medications.

You know, at first you're kind of a deer in headlights.

You take the medication, you know, the prescriptions, you go to your pharmacist, they fill a bunch of prescriptions and vials for you.

They hand them over.

They do what they can at the time.

And, you know, Matt, take it with food.

This will cause drowsiness.

You know, do what they need to do in that short period of time that they have.

But you go home and you don't remember any of this stuff.

No, because you've just been waiting at London Drugs or wherever you were.

Exactly.

You're still shocked that your diagnosis, you have this and this and this.

And you're just like, what's going on with my life? So you get home and you have all these vials of medication.

And, you know, and there's a bunch of stats, obviously, on, you know, how individuals just don't take their medications as prescribed and everything that happens there.

Someone said something, you know, it's a phrase and it's out there called stop the guesswork.

So, you know, that kind of, kind of hit me in that at the end of the day, what's actually happening is individuals are actually guessing.

No one knows why they're taking this medication.

They don't even know which one's which.

It's they're actually guessing, you know, and the whole system is, you know, starts to, when you break it down, there's a lot of guesswork happening.