Xtalks<\/a> reports that a confab of doctors are convening in Toronto later this month to discuss this subject. There are many doctors in the field of Ongology who believe that newly developed therapies, called oral oncolyitics, will replace chemotherapies for a number of cancers. The difficulties are that patients are so non-adherent with so many drugs that if the patients skip their cancer fighting meds that they\u2019ll be at much greater risk. You will, after all, go to visit a medical facility to take your scheduled dose of Chemo, but you won\u2019t stay at home and reliably take a pill. Taking a pill at home is much more convenient, it also may turn out to me much more effective. Medication adherence is so critical that these doctors are gathering to figure out how to tell you why it\u2019s so important that you, the patient, take your meds. And, in the future, there will be more and more targeted pill based regimens that will be utilized as cures for other potentially deadly diseases.<\/p>\n\nYes, doctors need to tell their patients that taking their meds on time and as directed really matters. I would like to suggest that we as individual patients take a new Entrepreneurial approach. If we individual patients are looking to succeed in our Medication Project and maybe we should look at it as though we\u2019re starting a new business. First, start your own fictitious company that is dedicated to finding ways for you and your family to be the as healthy as possible. Give it a personal\u2026 something like \u201cSandra Health, Inc.,\u201d or \u201cSmith Family Health.\u201d Then we create a board of directors: You, your partner and your doctor, and maybe the oldest child. Then we come up with a Mission Statement, maybe \u201cThis enterprise exists to keep our family members in the maximum level of health possible.\u201d Then we create a simple business plan: 1. Eat healthy foods, getting specific about what and when; 2. Exercise at least 5 times a week for 20 minutes or more, getting specific about individual goals; 3. Get regular checkups, making sure that you fully understand your doctor\u2019s directions, including the medications he\/she directs you to take. 4. Go to Medtexter.com and sign up each of your family members who take meds so that you\u2019ll get those important reminders; 5.Take the meds that our doctor prescribes. It\u2019s imperative that all family members understand and buy into the plan.<\/p>\n
\nThink past what you might have questioned in your past. \u201dIf I\u2019m starting a business then I have to think about the things that we need to achieve to make that business successful.\u201d Having thought that through, we\u2019d go about hiring the people that are the most qualified to accomplish the goals we\u2019ve set. We would, if we were truly looking to succeed, not hire friends or surround ourselves with people that would tell us the things that we want to hear. Yet that\u2019s the equivalent of what we\u2019ve done most of the time when it comes to our internal messages about the necessity of taking our prescribed drugs. We talk to our friends who probably do not understand as much as you do about your own healthcare.<\/p>\n
\nIt seems that many of us allow ourselves to listen to our well-meaning neighbors and to hear our own voices with messages that it\u2019s alright not to take the meds we\u2019ve been prescribed. The HCP Live article says, our \u201cnecessity beliefs about medication,\u201d These self induced thoughts can overpower the oft unspoken message that \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have written this prescription for you if it wasn\u2019t important for you to take as directed.\u201d This clash between one\u2019s own inner necessity doubt and the Doctor\u2019s unspoken message of necessity result in the patients ability to ignore. That\u2019s a bad result. Nobody else is more responsible to for maintaining your health than you; your Mission Statement says so.<\/p>\n
\nIf the goal of our imaginary entrepreneurial enterprise is to maintain our own health, then we have to remember to take our prescriptions as directed by our doctors. We need some a method to be responsible for taking our own meds on-time, everytime. Because taking our meds on time matters to your health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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