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| Duration: | 06:36 |
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| MLA Full: | "Why Can't I Take My Meds?" YouTube, uploaded by vlogbrothers, 23 September 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=67w2YHtqUc0. |
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| APA Full: | vlogbrothers. (2025, September 23). Why Can't I Take My Meds? [Video]. YouTube. https://youtube.com/watch?v=67w2YHtqUc0 |
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vlogbrothers, "Why Can't I Take My Meds?", September 23, 2025, YouTube, 06:36, https://youtube.com/watch?v=67w2YHtqUc0. |
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/taking-medicines-like-youre-supposed-hard-2017051011628
And here's a great paper on how people experience medicine in their daily lives: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8345846/
The biggest trial I could find about so called patient nonadherence: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2605527
I also used this from the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/ama-steps-forward-program/8-reasons-patients-dont-take-their-medications
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SOURCES:
Here's a very readable overview: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/taking-medicines-like-youre-supposed-hard-2017051011628
And here's a great paper on how people experience medicine in their daily lives: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8345846/
The biggest trial I could find about so called patient nonadherence: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2605527
I also used this from the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/ama-steps-forward-program/8-reasons-patients-dont-take-their-medications
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Subscribe to our newsletter! https://werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn
If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch
If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn
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