Thursday, February 6, 2014

Another resource--your pharmacist

Another valuable resource for your health care involves your pharmacist.

After your doctor’s appointment, you have questions about the new medication.  Who can help provide this information?  The pharmacist is another excellent resource about medicines.  Find a pharmacy you consider convenient and like dealing with.  By using the same pharmacy for all your medications, you get help from the pharmacist who has a listing of all your medications that were filled there.  If there are questions about drug duplication or interactions, the pharmacist can help spot potential problems.  Ask the pharmacist any questions that occurred to you after you left the doctor’s office.  The pharmacy may provide a drug information printout paper. Keep this paper and refer to it if questions arise.   The pharmacist can help with issues of insurance company coverage for new medicines and if there’s a problem, call the doctor’s office for you.  

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