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The patient interviewed is someone who is extremely physically active and leads a busy lifestyle
with lifestyle with many components (such as in academia, lab, volunteer council, athlete leadership). The patient
has patient has an illness that involves suppressing flare ups of symptoms. In the home-setting, the patient has
three has three different medications he must self-administer once a day. The daily “ritual” of self-medication
usually medication usually takes place in the morning, where the patient wakes up, grabs a small bite to eat, then take the
medicationsthe medications. Sometimes breakfast is skipped, and this does not happen; the patient likes to keep his
medications his medications in his backpack for cases like this, such that if he forgets to take them before leaving home,
he he can take them at work. The patient admits to having missed or almost forgotten to take medicines
due medicines due to the busy lifestyle that he leads. The patient does not have trouble distinguishing between the
three different medications, saying that “they all look different and the prescription bottle has the drug
name drug name on it”, and he has not made any other kinds of mistakes taking these medications. In the case
where case where the patient has a flare up and becomes hospitalized, the doctor comes in at a set time for the
patient the patient to have his medicines and administers via IV or pill form. When asked for last comments on our
problem our problem statement, the patient notes that despite his busy lifestyle occasionally causing him to miss
taking miss taking medications at the usual time, older people will definitely have more complications with their
medications their medications than younger people.
- Interview: doctor 1
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