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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 116. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Patel. And today with us, we have our all-time favorite Dr. Shravastewa,

as well as the first time joining Dr. Danielle Candelario, as well as Dr. Sneha Shrewastava, are our clinical skills faculty at the College of Pharmacy.

And in this episode, we are hoping to partner with them to discuss some tips, tricks, and common pitfalls that we should be avoiding when performing medication counseling.

And the title of today's episode is taking your patient counseling skills to the next level, clinical pearls, and pitfalls to avoid. So welcome to the show,

and we really hope to have a great conversation today about really how to improve patient

counseling skills. You know, I would say that the target market here for today's episode is

partially the P4 student who is now seeing patients live as are going on to their appurotations or perhaps that recent graduate.

But I think even the veteran pharmacist out there is going to find a lot of value in what we talk about today

and maybe change their approach to how they counsel patients in a good way and improve that.

And what we're talking today, it comes really from our experiences as being patients, being

caregivers for our friends and family members, being pharmacists and being obviously the

educators we are at the College of Pharmacy.

So Dr. Shravastva, why don't we start off with you? And, you know, before this episode,

before we started recording, we kind of brainstorm some ideas. And I think

that you had one overarching key theme that is a really good one to kind of bring to the attention

of the audience. And we'll start with that one. Thank you. And thank you for having me. You may

have heard about this book for parents, and it's about how you can talk so your children listen and

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