Stop telling your doctor lies so you can be properly diagnosed, prescribed the right medicines and even help you get better soon enough.
Stop telling your doctor lies to avoid problems
It has always been a common observation that people often are not too honest about how they feel or react when a doctor asks them questions about their conditions and health checks.
Some do not even provide accurate information to their doctors about their symptoms fearing their worst by getting diagnosed of a disease they do not want to know.
But truth be told, doctors need to be nosy and persistent about getting all sorts of information from patients because they need to paint an exact picture, or something close to it, about what you are feeling and how they could better address it.
Doctors are not mind readers
Doctors need to know exactly what you are feeling, what you have drank or eaten in the last hour or days before that and more, in order for them to provide you with the proper medication or treatment for your problem.
It is always strongly advised to be honest, the food you ate or the beverage you drank may have been part of the cause of the problem, or maybe you were bitten by a dog but didn’t disclose it.
Help your doctors make the right decisions and provide you with the best care possible.
Yes, I am taking it consistently as prescribed
You may have been too busy that you always forget to take the medicines prescribed to you the last time. You go to your doctor for your regular examination and asked how was your medication and you cut him off saying yes you do.
But in truth, you actually are not, your doctor then asks you if there were any effects and you said no.
Your doctor might then make adjustments to dosage or probably change it to a different one. It could have been the right treatment for you, but since you were not truthful, you ended up nowhere in the treatment of your problem.
“I need to know whether the patient is taking the meds. If they aren’t, and I assume the drug isn’t working, it may cause me to switch to a different second choice med,” says Dr. David B. Agus, the Director of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine.
“Be honest about the meds you are taking or not taking,” Agus says, “and then together we can make the right decisions.”
I’m not into drugs
Since recreational or narcotic drugs are either illegal or restricted, when you end up in the hospital requiring immediate treatment and asked whether you are a drug user and you say no, you are just depriving yourself of immediate treatment that you are supposed to have.
The main reason for this may be that you may be afraid to disclose that you are into drugs and which is what makes it difficult to disclose to your doctor.
“Given that most recreational drugs are illegal, we’re obviously uncomfortable about sharing these habits with our doctors,” says Dr. Ramin Manshadi, an Associate Clinical Professor at UC Davis, feels that the vast majority of people who take recreational drugs lie to their doctors about it, yet the truth often shows up in their urine.
So always be truthful to your doctor so you can get the best and most proper care for your health.
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