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As a pharmacy resident, David Jacobs found that many of the clinical problems he ran into on rounds could not be solved by randomized trials, triggering a lifelong focus on real-world care. In this episode of Driven to Discover, the health services researcher discusses one of the more alarming failures of our health care system—medication-related harm—and how a UB initiative called Team Alice is striving to fix it.