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It's a difficult problem, because while there definitely are people who don't listen, don't understand, or ignore the warnings, there are doctors who don't warn, or try to downplay, or just treat the patient like "take the tablets because I told you so".
I've had the latter experience both for myself and for family members. We got into the habit of buying "home guides to medicines" in order to look up side-effects and contraindications because my father had had so many bad results from "try this new medicine", has bad reaction which nobody warned him about/"take this new medicine", it reacts with medication he is already on. So from then on we researched, as best we could, any medications he was on in case that "okay yeah, you should not take X and Y both".
I've had a couple of those myself, including "okay, I'm supposed to tell you that this medication sometimes has this side-effect, but it's VERY rare and hardly ever happens", okay I take the first dose and oops. I get the reaction. Which can be a life-threatening one if I choose to believe the doctor and keep taking it. Or "Sorry doc, I can't take this new medication" "Why?" "Got an allergic reaction" "Oh, really?" I describe symptoms and "Right, that is an allergic reaction, stop taking it". So again, every time I get new medicine, first thing I do is go online and check if there are warnings, side-effects, or contra-indications with what I'm already taking.
So while I sympathise, I don't know what can be done. If doctors over-warn, that triggers panic, if they don't warn, there is risk of a very severe side-effect. And yeah, you'll have patients who don't listen anyway.
Yup. :/
Pharmacists do have a helpful role here though. Specialities like Psych and Oncology have medication that is complicated and generally have the time to pause and talk through some things, but an antibiotic for an infection? PCP gonna move on to the next patient - good time for the pharmacist to do med information while dispensing.
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