Do Patients Really Communicate with Healthcare Professionals?

Abstract

Pharma plays an important role in our daily lives. In the present year, people has evolved from Ayurveda to modernised treatment and medication but still some lack the importance of medicines and the knowledge about them. People are lacking in taking medications as prescribed. They fail to follow the medications regularly and properly. They are not aware of the side effects and the mechanism of the medicine that they adhere. Patients lack communication with the doctors or nurse, or pharmacist which is very important to discuss and get clarified with their doubts. Patients are not bothered about the dosage knowledge, the problem with substitution medication. Some patients are even hesitated to ask the health care professionals even though they have some issues or doubts. In some cases, instead of patients, they are allowing their family members to purchase the medicine, sometimes even without prescription. Patients are more often to pharmacy than hospital. In this paper, the author did empirical research and tested a hypothesis and analysed using statistical analysis that includes both qualitative and quantitative analyses and answered those hypotheses.