• Zombie@feddit.uk
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    19 days ago

    Is this something I’m too European to understand, but the medical professional told the patient to dO tHeIR oWn REsEaRcH and pick their own medication?..

    Did everybody clap afterwards too?

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      19 days ago

      When you’re just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, then I see no problem with this. You’re probably going to be trying both anyway. The question is just what order you try them in, which is a pretty low stakes decision for a patient to make.

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      8 days ago

      I can only talk for depression medicine I took, but … there are side effects for medicine and you can very well talk about those and decide based on those. There are different personal preferences for risks and side effects. The doc obviously thinks both could work