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

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Doctor knows best used to be a mantra.

These days though, mistrust in medicine is common.

How can we rebuild trust? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Political distrust during the pandemic exacerbated mistrust in medicine.

This puts both patients and providers in a difficult bind.

For years, people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome

were told that their symptoms were psychosomatic.

Long COVID changed that, when medicine doesn't have answers to challenging problems, doctors need to be honest.

Until physicians and patients can trust each other,

shared decision-making will only be a meaningless slogan.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Headlines, Bird Flu has killed millions of chickens, turkeys and wild birds.

Now scientists are increasingly worried about this H5N1 virus spreading to cattle.

Genomic analysis reveals that the virus made it jump to cows as early as December 2023.

It's been moving through herds ever since.

The virus is showing up in milk and meat.

Federal officials are just now starting to collect samples of both to determine how far the virus is spread.

It's been detected in 34 herds since the end of March.

With 20% of milk samples testing positive, the virus is probably far more widespread than originally predicted.

The FDA has said that preliminary tests indicate pasteurized milk is safe to drink

since the pasteurization process kills the virus. Officials warn against consuming

raw milk or cheese made from raw milk.

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