5 Reasons Why You Should Never Keep Secrets from Your Doctor
4. To obtain awareness about the dangerous consequences
Most patients tend to abruptly stop their prescription medicine once they start feeling fine without realizing the importance of completing the course. Abrupt stopping of medicines might lead to dangerous return of symptoms which would be difficult for your doctor to understand, if you fail to inform him about having skipped the medicines. Once you tell the doctor that you have not been following his prescription, he may ensure its timely consumption by educating you on the hazardous consequences of not having one.
5. To enable doctors and patients to work as a team
Medicines can yield more effective results when doctors and patients can work as a team. Revealing everything to your doctor helps them in knowing what you are doing and why? If you are using alternative medicine because the prescribed medicines are not giving desired results or you just felt that alternative medicine will help in faster recovery, talk to your doctor about this. Together you can decide the best approach – the one which will be more effective, yield better results and would be free from any side-effects
