In which John explores why humans struggle so much to take medication appropriately. SOURCES: Here's a very readable overview: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/taking-medicines-like-youre-supposed-hard-2017051011628 And here's a great paper on how people experience medicine in their daily lives: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8345846/ The biggest trial I could find about so called patient nonadherence: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2605527 I also used this from the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/ama-steps-forward-program/8-reasons-patients-dont-take-their-medications ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! https://werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribe Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn