....my doctor told me nothing about my creams, been using dovobet WAYYYY to much acording to how its supposed to be used...
This seems to be a common experience round here, sadly. Let's hope that slightly more enlightened modern medical education will gradually improve things. However, patients can do a lot...
(a) by asking questions, and preferably entering every consultation armed with a little list of questions not to forget to ask. I have found that in potentially stressful or intimidating meetings, I'll almost never get what I want or need unless I'm prepared, and armed with at least a scrap of paper with my 'agenda'; and...
(b) by reading carefully the 'patient information leaflet' that should be included inside every packet of medication. If it isn't there, ask for it.
As practically every professional is under pressure these days, and people are imperfect and usually rushed, those two steps would help interactions over medications a great deal.
(My daughter recently started her first doctor's job after qualification. I dearly hope she's managing to remember and practise the principles I know her to have been taught on how and how not to interact with patients.)
