Good poll....while I have several health issues and visit doctors to monitor and/or treat them I feel that I need to be my own advocate. I try to educate myself as much as possible re: my issues and the medications (if any) that I should take for them.
This may open a "can of worms" but I don't take statin drugs though my primary tries to encourage me to take them and prescribes them. Fortunately for me my meds are mail-order so I tell those folks not to send the statins to me. You can do your own research on these particular drugs and the side-effects that come from them. At any rate...I try to find practitioners who aren't "dictators" but work with me as on a team approach. Any others I will "fire"...we hire them and not the other way around.
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