I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Gradyen welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.

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Have you ever had trouble understanding your doctor?

Communication is critical to the doctor-patient relationship.

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Some people say they've been fired by their doctors if they question to

prescribe treatment. Dr David Myers is the chief medical officer of the

Agency for Health Care research and quality.

Patients have the right to say this isn't working for me and find another doctor

whenever they want, whenever they need to. Doctors should not have that same luxury.

There was a time when doctors decisions were always final.

Now patients have a responsibility to participate in their own care.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, when should you fire your doctor?

First, the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

Asperin is a very old drug, but scientists are still trying to figure out if it should be used to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

A meta analysis published in Jama reviewed the results of 13 placebo control trials with a total of more than 160,000 participants and more than a million

participant years.

The authors found that people taking aspirin were significantly less likely to suffer heart attack strokes or death

from cardiovascular causes. The difference was small though with an absolute

risk reduction of just 0.4 percent.

The analysis also considered whether people taking aspirin were more likely to experience

major bleeding.

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