Why Can't I Take My Meds?

In which John explores why humans struggle so much to take medication appropriately.
SOURCES:
Here's a very readable overview: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/t...
And here's a great paper on how people experience medicine in their daily lives: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
The biggest trial I could find about so called patient nonadherence: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
I also used this from the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-man...

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