Patients afraid to take medicine

Information leaflets in medicines, which include indications of possible side-effects, appear to cause some 30 percent of patients to refarin from taking their medicine.
Information leaflets in medicines, which include indications of possible side-effects, appear to cause some 30 percent of patients to refarin from taking their medicine.
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A new survey of patients in Denmark seems to indicate that instruction leaflets in medicine bottles, which list the possible side effects of taking drugs, cause one in three patients stop taking prescription medicine.

Information leaflets in medicines are required by law in Denmark.

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