I am a Kaiser patient and several weeks ago I got an email asking me if I wanted a pharmacist to go over my medications with me. I said yes and a week later I got a call from a pharmacist. She and I reviewed my medications and my supplements and in the process she moved a couple of my morning meds/supplements to evening because they were conflicting with other meds. I now take my multivitamin in the evening. It's a small change, but an effective one (so says the pharmacist).
It just seems to me that most patients need that kind of oversight, but how to get it when you have meds prescribed by different doctors spread across town or in different cities? It's a conumdrum that puts a lot of pressure on patients untrained in the field of medicine. How come no one talks about it? It's actually the same situation where patients have different doctors spread around town. The patient becomes the case manager, another situation most of us are unprepared to handle. If I weren't a Kaiser patient, both situations would drive me crazy.