There are a many reason why people don’t have frank conversations with their doctor: embarrassment, a fear of losing face, a lack of understanding about drug interactions …
Polypharmacy is the term used when you are taking too many medications and those medications start competing with one another to the detriment of your health.
Not to point the finger at the doctor, because a lot of patients don’t reveal the extent of the medications they’re taking. They almost never talk about the vitamins they’re taking or about their marijuana use – either for pain or recreational reasons or illegal drugs. And it doesn’t stop there — did you know some people share drugs, “as in I’m taking this and it works for me, here, try one”? Doctors don’t hear those stories.
Add in the experiences Indigenous peoples have had with the Canadian medical system: a system that many say does not respect them or their perspectives on health, wellness and prevention. I would like to acknowledge that this program was recorded on the traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
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