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Podcast: Baptist HealthTalk
Episode: Take Your Medicine
Description: It seems obvious: the medicine your doctor prescribes can't help you if you don't take it, or don't take it the way you're supposed to. So it may surprise you that according to the Centers for Disease Control, prescription medications are not taken as prescribed an astounding 50% of the time -- and up to 30% of new prescriptions are never filled at the pharmacy at all. Host, Jonathan Fialkow, M.D. and his guest, Baptist Health clinical pharmacist Sara Eltaki, PharmD, talk about why sticking to the correct medication routine, or 'medication adherence', is so important to get th...