Why Adhering to Doctors' Orders Is Important

Have you ever forgotten to pick up a prescription, missed a dose, or ended a medication regimen earlier than advised? It's human nature to make mistakes and be forgetful, but in these cases, it could harm your health.

Doctors prescribe medications with the expectation that patients will take them correctly, which is called medication adherence. However, most patients do not follow doctors' orders, which can be bad for their health.

According to the Script Your Future campaign, “more than one in three medicine-related hospitalizations happen because that person did not take their medicine as directed,” resulting in almost 125,000 deaths annually. 

There are many other reasons why individuals don’t take their medicine as directed. Learn more about medication adherence, and possible solutions to this problem.