WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.080 I was at the GP with my mum a week ago. 00:04.020 --> 00:08.480 The doctor looked up from her screen and asked one simple thing. 00:09.540 --> 00:11.780 Does mum take her medicines regularly? 00:13.060 --> 00:14.540 And do you know what? 00:15.100 --> 00:16.460 I went quiet. 00:17.520 --> 00:21.540 Because I honestly didn't know what to say. 00:23.120 --> 00:25.400 Hello, I'm Tomasz Szóster. 00:25.940 --> 00:27.660 I built the Moja Pteczka app. 00:27.660 --> 00:33.840 And what you've just heard is probably the most common question nobody can answer in the surgery. 00:34.980 --> 00:36.880 Isa, what did you actually say? 00:37.620 --> 00:40.180 I said, I think so. 00:41.020 --> 00:42.320 I think. 00:43.000 --> 00:44.640 That's all I had. 00:45.720 --> 00:47.000 Mum lives on her own. 00:47.560 --> 00:49.040 I'm round every few days. 00:49.600 --> 00:51.700 She takes tablets morning and evening. 00:52.020 --> 00:57.300 And hand on heart, I can't reconstruct a whole week from memory. 00:58.540 --> 00:59.560 And no one can. 01:00.420 --> 01:01.840 It's not that you're not trying. 01:02.740 --> 01:03.900 That's exactly it. 01:04.580 --> 01:06.580 Because it isn't one thing to remember. 01:07.440 --> 01:14.000 It's mum in the morning, mum in the evening, then the children, then me and my own tablets. 01:14.560 --> 01:16.140 The ones I forget most of all. 01:17.280 --> 01:19.620 Four, five threads at once. 01:19.980 --> 01:21.400 Each with its own rhythm. 01:21.400 --> 01:28.520 And after a week, every one of those threads blurs into one big, I think. 01:29.520 --> 01:31.640 I remember Leon had training yesterday. 01:32.520 --> 01:34.540 I remember Basher lost her hat. 01:35.520 --> 01:38.340 But did mum take her tablet on the Wednesday evening? 01:39.460 --> 01:40.280 No idea. 01:40.280 --> 01:42.980 So what now? 01:43.580 --> 01:48.520 Do I stand over her with a notepad, ticking off every dose with a biro? 01:49.160 --> 01:50.560 We tried it once. 01:51.380 --> 01:54.200 The bit of paper went missing after three days. 01:54.800 --> 01:56.660 The paper always goes missing. 01:57.540 --> 02:01.800 That's why, in the Moyapotechka app, I made something that works differently. 02:02.560 --> 02:04.100 Let me show you with an example. 02:04.100 --> 02:07.780 There's a screen now called, simply, History. 02:08.480 --> 02:10.300 You open it, and you see a calendar. 02:11.200 --> 02:16.760 Each day has its own colour, depending on how many of that day's planned doses got ticked off. 02:17.580 --> 02:21.760 So I look at the whole month and see straight away where the gaps were. 02:22.660 --> 02:23.120 Exactly. 02:24.060 --> 02:27.780 A day where everything's ticked looks different from a day with a gap. 02:27.780 --> 02:31.620 And when you tap a particular day, a list opens up. 02:32.140 --> 02:35.980 What time, which medicine, how many, and who it was for. 02:36.120 --> 02:38.400 And what does a day with a gap look like? 02:38.760 --> 02:43.460 Because mum sometimes takes the morning dose and misses the evening one. 02:43.980 --> 02:47.720 Then that day is neither fully done nor empty. 02:48.500 --> 02:51.200 You can see part of it's ticked and part isn't. 02:51.820 --> 02:53.620 You go in and it's right there. 02:54.220 --> 02:55.160 This dose in the morning? 02:55.680 --> 02:56.000 Ticked. 02:56.000 --> 02:57.640 This one in the evening? 02:58.100 --> 02:58.460 Not. 02:59.120 --> 02:59.880 No guessing. 03:00.520 --> 03:07.560 And that, who it was for, that matters to me, because I'm not just keeping track of myself. 03:08.280 --> 03:10.360 There's mum, there's the children. 03:11.000 --> 03:13.160 And that's exactly why you can filter it. 03:13.880 --> 03:16.880 By person, show me only mum's history. 03:17.480 --> 03:22.920 Or by a single medicine, show me just that one, as far back as my history goes. 03:22.920 --> 03:26.900 Right. But let's go back to the surgery. 03:27.540 --> 03:29.840 Because it looks lovely on the phone. 03:30.360 --> 03:34.160 Only the GP isn't going to scroll through my screen. 03:34.160 --> 03:35.880 And that's the heart of it. 03:35.880 --> 03:39.860 From that history screen, you can make a report for the doctor. 03:40.520 --> 03:46.720 You pick the person, the medicine, the date range, and the app puts it together into a clear document. 03:47.400 --> 03:51.680 You save it as a file, email it, or just show it there and then. 03:51.680 --> 03:58.440 So, instead of, I think so, I put an actual sheet in front of the doctor. 03:59.420 --> 04:02.060 Ticked on these days, not on those. 04:02.520 --> 04:04.800 Yes. And that's the whole idea. 04:05.480 --> 04:07.300 It isn't the app talking to the doctor. 04:08.060 --> 04:11.660 You hand over the facts, and she reads them and interprets them. 04:11.660 --> 04:18.240 And by the by, everything we're talking about here really is a feature of the Moya Potechka app. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.600 This isn't an advert, just context, to be clear. 04:22.440 --> 04:25.480 So, here's the question that really nags at me. 04:26.440 --> 04:28.560 How do I know the report's true? 04:29.500 --> 04:33.280 Because if I put a sheet in front of the doctor and it's gibberish, 04:33.760 --> 04:38.220 or it's got the wrong person on it, that's worse than showing nothing. 04:38.220 --> 04:42.420 Very good question, and that's the bit I put the most work into in this version. 04:43.000 --> 04:43.500 Two things. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.860 First, the name of the medicine. 04:46.380 --> 04:50.700 It used to be that the history could sometimes show a technical code instead of the name. 04:51.080 --> 04:56.280 Now the app keeps the real name of the medicine, even if that medicine left your cabinet ages ago. 04:56.920 --> 05:03.720 So, I delete a medicine off the list, and the history still says, in plain English, what it was. 05:04.200 --> 05:04.500 Yes. 05:05.100 --> 05:06.540 Second thing, the person. 05:06.540 --> 05:07.580 Picture this. 05:08.020 --> 05:09.440 You've got a reminder set for mum. 05:09.880 --> 05:10.960 Mum takes it for a month. 05:11.280 --> 05:14.000 Then you delete the reminder, because you don't need it anymore. 05:14.540 --> 05:18.560 It used to be that who it was for could disappear along with the reminder. 05:19.160 --> 05:19.720 Not now. 05:20.180 --> 05:23.980 Every dose keeps the right person, even after you delete the reminder. 05:24.580 --> 05:26.380 That does sound honest, to be fair. 05:26.860 --> 05:30.600 Because a record that drifts after a month is worth nothing. 05:31.180 --> 05:31.740 Precisely. 05:31.740 --> 05:36.400 The report you hand the doctor has to be right on the person and right on the medicine. 05:36.900 --> 05:38.600 Otherwise, it's just a pretty picture. 05:39.600 --> 05:42.660 So, where does this history come from in the first place? 05:43.160 --> 05:46.720 Because for something to be ticked, I have to tick it. 05:46.720 --> 05:47.640 You do. 05:48.080 --> 05:49.040 And I'll say it straight. 05:49.340 --> 05:51.600 The history is only as good as your ticking. 05:52.120 --> 05:54.100 That's why I made it as simple as I could. 05:54.520 --> 05:59.200 The reminder comes in, you tap it, and straight away, you've got the choice for that one dose. 05:59.640 --> 06:02.220 Taken, snooze 15 minutes, or skip. 06:02.660 --> 06:04.680 You don't even have to open the app properly. 06:05.240 --> 06:09.360 And if I've no signal, mum's bedroom barely gets any reception. 06:09.360 --> 06:11.200 It works with no signal. 06:11.720 --> 06:13.000 You tick it off offline. 06:13.460 --> 06:16.380 And when the signal comes back, that change syncs itself. 06:16.840 --> 06:18.860 Same with adding and editing medicines. 06:19.340 --> 06:23.860 You do it offline, and the app shows you how many changes are waiting to sync. 06:24.420 --> 06:24.820 Right. 06:25.360 --> 06:29.020 Now, the thing that always niggles me with features like this. 06:29.680 --> 06:31.080 That colour calendar. 06:31.780 --> 06:34.420 I don't want the app judging me. 06:34.920 --> 06:38.100 As if I'm a bad daughter because there's a gap on the Tuesday. 06:38.100 --> 06:39.900 And here I want to be very clear. 06:40.460 --> 06:42.080 It's a record, not a judgement. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.920 The app doesn't say good or bad. 06:45.360 --> 06:48.160 It only shows what was ticked and when, that's all. 06:48.880 --> 06:52.440 What you make of it, whether it matters, where you go from there, 06:52.900 --> 06:55.940 that's a conversation with the doctor, not with your phone. 06:57.240 --> 06:59.500 Alright, that does sound fair. 07:00.240 --> 07:02.400 It's a fact, not a verdict. 07:03.240 --> 07:03.680 Exactly. 07:03.680 --> 07:08.260 And one more honest thing, because I don't want to hide anything. 07:09.040 --> 07:11.220 For free, you see the last week of history. 07:11.960 --> 07:14.840 If you want to go further back, that's on the paid plans. 07:15.540 --> 07:19.540 Or, on the free plan, you can keep it for longer after watching an advert. 07:20.740 --> 07:23.840 So you're not pretending it's all free with no small print? 07:24.540 --> 07:25.020 I'm not. 07:25.520 --> 07:29.360 I'd rather tell you plainly where the line is than have you find it in the surgery. 07:29.360 --> 07:32.720 You know what I like most about all this? 07:33.580 --> 07:38.000 That next time the GP asks, does mum take her medicines regularly, 07:38.380 --> 07:40.700 I won't say, I think. 07:41.220 --> 07:44.600 I'll say, here, this is the record. 07:45.520 --> 07:46.800 And that was the whole point. 07:47.360 --> 07:50.240 To take the job of remembering everything off your shoulders. 07:50.900 --> 07:52.420 That's what tools are for. 07:52.940 --> 07:55.820 Not the head of a tired daughter at ten o'clock at night. 07:55.820 --> 07:57.800 Or a tired mum. 07:58.580 --> 08:01.080 Because Basher will lose something again tomorrow. 08:01.880 --> 08:05.740 If you'd like to give it a go, that's the Moya Pteczka app. 08:06.300 --> 08:08.200 The app is free and works offline. 08:08.960 --> 08:10.580 You'll find the link in the episode description. 08:11.480 --> 08:17.060 And if you enjoyed the episode, share it with someone who's got a parent to take to the doctor next time. 08:17.060 --> 08:19.640 One more thing before we go. 08:20.420 --> 08:23.400 This podcast is made with the help of artificial intelligence. 08:24.540 --> 08:28.360 I wrote the dialogue myself, but the voices you're hearing aren't ours. 08:28.860 --> 08:30.960 They're AI-generated synthetic voices. 08:32.140 --> 08:37.520 We're telling you this straight out because we think it should be the standard for any podcast made this way. 08:38.440 --> 08:41.940 Full details are in the show notes and in every episode description. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.040 Until next time. 08:44.900 --> 08:46.020 Until next time.