It's a great question. I think that one of the pieces we try to work with, with our consumer advocacy, is to have a better understanding of medications and the link to illness. I don't think that piece is quite clear in the public eye. We could do a better job as health care practitioners in making sure that people understand the medications they're on and why they're on them, and that they can be part of the monitoring in assessment of these medications.
Yesterday I was at a research meeting on home care. There's a growing push to community care and having these patients manage their medications on their own. Their caregivers don't quite understand the implications of all the meds and how they put them together. As we increase our education to our consumers there will be better understanding of their medications and more information for their family physicians when they visit.