After an office visit, why don't doctors send patients home with detailed written instructions? When you are sick and in pain is not the best time to try to remember small details.
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Because they are overworked and unappreciated. In the UK at least.
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i agree they should write down the instructions of how you should take your medicine. doesn't the pharmacist kind of do that for you. i definitely think that the doctor/patient relationship leaves much to be desired.
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Truly they do run a copy off and send it home with us - Sometimes I'm just to sick to read it -- around here Good Question
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the country doctor around here does both. Detailed instructions verbally and written.
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Yes, I agree. My mum went to see a consultant about her osteoperosis. Among other things she was perscribed a tablet she had to take once a week. The percription was for four tablets, so my mum assumed it was a months course. When she had her next appointmentb 6 months later she found out she should have got a repeat perscription and continued to take it. So she missed out on five months of taking the tablet. She was in her early eighties at the time, so it was hard for her to remember what the consultant said. Written instructions would of course have prevented the problem occuring.
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If they DO write it, it isn't readable. But you are right, they often don't tell you or they send you home with vague instructions which require you to call back and figure out what they mean. That's why I always bring someone with me, as an interpretor! Believe me, you need one.
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