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Educate Before You Medicate

Most newspapers today carried a story about the failure of patients to follow prescription directions, or to continue medications until told to stop. This results in thousands of people who fail to respond to efforts to prevent progress or develpment of chronic diseases. Those who want more information should go to the web page of the National Council on Patient Information and Education.

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Tnakx for the infos.by the way i agree with you,people should get educated before taking medicaltions,and i see many doctors also fails to give the proper way of taking medications.

Tnakx for the infos.by the way i agree with you,people should get educated before taking medicaltions,and i see many doctors also fails to give the proper way of taking medications.

yes this happens all the time, if you are educated, or at least know the questions to ask it helps.

yes learn understand and most of all ASK QUESTIONS if you do no understand

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