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Welcome to Helix Talk episode 52. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr.

Patel. So today we're going to talk about

topic that is near and dear to our heart. It's about drug interaction, drug mixology, and

danger of consequences. And because there are so many of these two review and understand and maybe

make recommendation and impact, we have divided into two parts. So let's talk about part one.

And this is really a common area that pharmacists are experts in, in the sense that drug

interactions are very common and also very complex. There's a lot of them. And then probably the

most important role of the pharmacist is to decide how big of a deal is that drug interaction.

You know, if you run a drug interaction check for aspirin, you're going to see a ton of drugs, but much of the time

those interactions aren't clinically relevant, or they just require a little bit more monitoring

versus a never can use, never can combine these two things. So there's a habit, especially if you're

just simply doing it based on a very surface

level report, and everything's going to be black and white of always use or never use. And again,

there's so many shades of gray in here that you really have to get into some of the complex

pharmacology with the individual patient factors and many other things before it's coming up a

one-size-fits-all answer. And I like what you both just said right now, because nowadays with the computerized database,

we have the flag warnings, and there seems to be like a physician warning fatigue going on,

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