Master Your Medicine: How to Better Understand Your Prescription

If you’re not feeling or seeing an improvement while taking your medicine, it’s understandable that you may feel like it’s not doing its job. The thing is, many medicines may seem like they’re not doing anything, but in reality, they’re actually working really hard behind the scenes. Even though you can’t feel it, they’re helping.

“For silent chronic conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, it may be working, but you may not be feeling the effects,” says Preeti Parikh, MD, Executive Medical Director at GoodRx and a pediatrician at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

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Brittany Doohan

Brittany Doohan was the Content Director at HealthiNation and is currently the Editorial Director at Medscape. Through her work with Medscape, she won a Silver Telly Award in May 2022 for "Sleepless Nation: A Public Health Epidemic — Episode 2: A Decade Without a Diagnosis." She has worked in health journalism and video production for more than 8 years, and loves the challenge of explaining complex topics in an easy-to-understand and creative way.

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Karen Hovav, MD, FAAP

Karen Hovav, MD, FAAP, has more than 15 years of experience as an attending pediatrician. She has worked in a large academic center in an urban city, a small community hospital, a private practice, and an urgent care clinic.

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