Micaela: Messages to others – Messages for supporters
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Micaela
Female
Age at interview: 38
Number of medicines: 21
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Micaela wants to emphasise to health professionals that communication with their patients is paramount.
Please communicate more … can I look in the camera now? Please communicate more with your patients, because it's their body and they really usually want to understand what's going on. And it doesn't have to be about scaring them and they aren't necessarily being a hypochondriac. Please just communicate more. Give them as much information as you can about the medicines they're taking and the impact ... possible impact on their body. Thank you.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.