Your patient doesn't know what "reduced sodium" means.
They don't know why they take metformin.
They don't know that their blood pressure medication works better if they take it at night.
They don't know that the 20 pounds they gained in 8 days is a medical emergency — they just thought they were eating too much.
There is a Grand Canyon-sized gap between what patients need to know and what anyone is actually telling them.
Pharmacists have the education to fill that gap.
We just never built the model to get paid for it.
The model exists now.
he gap is still there.
What are we waiting for?