I’m always a bit leery of surveys that tell me patients aren’t taking their medication. The blame always seems to fall on the patient, rather than doctors who don’t take the time to speak with patients so that they understand what to do to treat their disease. The latest of these studies involves asthma.
The study says that two-thirds of physicians treating asthma believe that less than 50% of their patients take their daily asthma controller. My first question when I heard this was, did the doctor properly explain how to use their controller? Did they do …read more