About Betty Chaffee

Betty Chaffee, PharmD, is owner and sole proprietor of BetterMyMeds, a Medication Management service devoted to helping people get the maximum benefit from their medications.

Monitoring Your Treatment Plan May Be Up To You!

Monitoring Your Treatment Plan May Be Up To You!

Do-It-Yourself Medication Management, Part 4 Pharmacist-provided “Medication Management Services” are our specialty at Better My Meds. The help of a pharmacist in managing your meds can go a long way to keeping you healthy (more on that in a later post). But there’s a lot that you can do, too, to manage your meds, and that’s what we’ve been talking about so far this year. In this post we’ll focus

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Medication Adherence is Important to Your Health

Medication Adherence is Important to Your Health

This is the third post in our 2024 series on Medication Management. Medication Management includes all the things you and your healthcare team do to help you get the best health outcomes from your medications. These first posts are all about your role in the process. Here, we’ll focus on “medication adherence” — taking medications consistently and correctly. It’s an important part of medication management, since research shows that nearly

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Is Your Medication List Up-to-Date?

Is Your Medication List Up-to-Date?

This is the second post in a series about Medication Management, DIY style. Many of you know that Better My Meds is a pharmacy practice that focuses on Medication Management. But what we do is just a piece of the pie.  You also have a role in managing your medications. A big one, actually, since you’re the end user. In our last post we talked about the importance of using

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Managing your Medications and Health in the New Year

Managing your Medications and Health in the New Year

Happy New Year! You’re likely reading this post (and hopefully other posts on this website!) because you want to be as healthy as possible. BetterMyMeds is dedicated to helping you do that by providing what pharmacists call “Medication Management Services”. This post is the first of a series that will give you more information about Medication Management. What it is, what BetterMyMeds offers, and more importantly, what part you play in managing your medications and health.

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