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Let's start the show.

All right, welcome back to the podcast.

I am joined today with Dr. Jake McBride.

He is a psychiatrist in private practice and also runs a consultal liaison practice for

hospital in Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh, and he is someone I've known for a while.

We've had many conversations together, meaningful conversations about life, about psychopharmacology,

psychotherapy, and today we're going to be focusing on polypharmacy.

And so Jake, or should I say Dr. McBride, what do you want me to call you?

Let's do Jake.

Let's do Jake.

It's kind of broadly give a definition and sort of an intro to the topic of polypharmacy.

Yes, I think you and I decided polypharmacy was important.

Polypharmacy is dangerous, and like anything dangerous, we must confront it.

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