Poll: A Question About Ongoing Medication Follow Up

[MHCommunityManager]

How much more likely would you be to take a new medication, as prescribed by your doctor, if you received ongoing follow up from a healthcare professional who could answer questions about the medication?

[Paxiled]

I don't get this question -- if the doctor who prescribes medication doesn't do follow-up and can't or won't answer questions, then you need a new doctor or need to do your own homework -- unless you're suggesting there's a health-care professional who not only has studied pharmacology but is willing to risk you no longer paying for care when they tell you all the bad things that might happen to you or how little we know about the long-term effects of medications, especially those affecting the brain.  Are you trying to promote the use of medication?  Who is paying for this survey?  And we don't take these drugs because we want to, we take them because we don't see an alternative, so it's not really a choice in the sense you're presenting it as.