Transcript: Stephen P. Bradley, M.D.

Communication with the patient is key

[Bradley:]: We can try to impose a regimen of cure to anybody, but unless they accept that, unless they understand that, unless they feel that that’s in their best interest, they will not continue that. If you look at Western medicine today, what is one of the major problems? It’s “medical non-compliance.”
[Lindberg:]: They don’t even fill the prescriptions.
[Bradley:]: We give the prescription, they go, maybe they’ll fill it and they put it in their medicine cabinet. “You know, I’m not convinced. I’m not going to take it.” And they’ll come back to us six months later and— not doing all that well and we say, “Well, what happened?” And if they don’t tell us what happened, we may actually raise the doses. We may get into problems that way, because we don’t know. We feel that the most important thing is actually connect with the person, find out where their heads are at, so that we can better communicate, and I think better start the healing process.