I've got a full medicine cabinet. And I'll admit: there are some prescription bottles with pills left in them for God only knows what ailments. Hopefully I'm cured of whatever it was since I never finished the bottle.
I'm not the only one who doesn't always finish her prescription. And it's starting to piss doctors off.
Apparently, a new TeleVox Healthy World Report reveals, three out of four Americans admit they don't follow the treatment plans they've been given by their doctor exactly as prescribed. Health care professionals aren't quite as forgiving with the stat—they claim 95 percent of patients fail to comply with treatment plans as prescribed.
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