Health Literacy
Do You Understand Everything your Doctor Tells You?
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Misunderstandings lead to:
- Medication errors
- Missed appointments
- Poor medical outcomes
- Confusion and bad follow up
Practice the following behaviors in order to improve communication with your provider leading to better outcomes for you:
- Ask questions
- Review words that are not familiar to you
- Take along a friend or family member
- Take all of your medications with you to your appointment. This includes vitamins.
- Ask for demonstrations or drawings to clarify information that you do not understand.
