Why do people not trust to ask a health professional (doctor, pharmacist, nurse) questions?

Question

I feel that a majority of questions and awnsers I have seen on this site are questions that could be asked of people's doctors, pharmacists, or nurses. Is it that people don't feel these professionals are trustworthy, don't know their qualifications or is it something else???

It is always FREE to call a pharmacist- or talk to them at the pharmacy.

By the way I am a Pharmacy student, and I am curious. I want everyone to be open, even if you feel negative about Pharmacists. If you do I would like to know why.

Answer 1

in the US, asking a doctor or nurse usually means making an appointment and spending money, people try to avoid that if they can...also, it is easier to sit at home and ask questions on the computer than to actually get out there where the professionals are to ask them. LOL, bunch of lazy so and sos.

Answer 2

Maybe they're among the 47 million Americans who don't have health insurance.

Also, I'm not sure asking a pharmacist medical questions is a lot better than asking the general public. Maybe questions about drugs, they're often BETTER than doctors at answering those questions - in fact, a pharmacist once picked up a pair of drugs that should not have been prescribed to the same patient (my mother) and urged her to call the doctor and warn him - she did and he immediately took her off one of the drugs.

Answer 3

I get the sense that she's been getting the lasix all along and her potassium value of 3.8 is fine. Her creatinine of 1.6 already shows renal failure and she's on two ACE inhibitors too; adding more potassium may not be a great idea unless she's documented as actually being in hypokalemia. Though on Lasix, and it may have dropped some of her preload pressures (as she was active until a few weeks ago), she clearly has developed new signs of failure (rales and nocturnal dyspnea, severe dependent edema, tachypnea), so adding digoxin, a positive inotrope, is appropriate as it would augment her cardiac output. Increasing her Benazepril too, will hopefully drop her afterload resistance, and increase cardiac output. Thus, by allowing her heart to push harder against less resistance, this would increase perfusion of her kidneys allowing more fluid to be off loaded. I would add that the doctor should keep an eye on her sodium as she's borderline hyponatremia (which would further complicate her metabolic picture and worsen her fatigue). Ralph

Answer 4

I don't know why people are afraid to ask. Most pharmacists are not going to be angry if you ask a question about your medications. The pharmacist will be angry if you ask him/her where is the toilet paper in the store. Right now, it is free to talk to a pharmacist, but if the trend holds true, that will be ending. In general, pharmacists are tired of not being paid for their services, and want to change that.

Answer 5

Well i dont have insurance so i ask stuff on here that should be asked to a professional! However they dont always know what there talking about either, i trust them as much as i trust anyone on here!

Answer 6

a lot of doctors will give you different anwsers. you almost have to ask one who specializes in what you want to know about. for meds most doctors only know what the drug salesman has presented to them unless they do a lot of reading on thier own. i know that for example in that if you want information on something like a vehicle accident ask an emergency room doctor, if you ask someone like on ob/gyn doctor your anwser will be different and more than likely no correct

Answer 7

Adult patient do not trust about nurse or doctor ordered if they request for Adult Rectal temperature taken?