Know what you take, and why.
There is more information printed on a prescription label than on almost any other document in your life, and nobody has ever walked you through it.
These are the two pages I use in the room with patients. Take them — no email, no sign-up, no form.
My Medication List
One page. Every medicine you take, the strength, and how you actually take it. Print it, fill it in, and keep it with you — especially for the emergency room, where nobody has your chart and everybody is guessing.
10 Ways to Avoid Medication Mistakes
The ten things that prevent most of the medication errors I see. Two minutes to read. The first one alone catches the most common mistake there is — taking the same drug twice under two different names.
Watch My Video on Medication Labels
Seven minutes, one label, start to finish. Who is actually named on the bottle, where the directions live, the three numbers people mix up — and five prescriptions that look completely different and turn out to be the same medicine at the same daily dose.
This is what a first visit looks like.
Every new patient at B2 Direct Care brings their bottles to the first visit. We go through them together and build a list that reflects what you actually take and why. It takes twenty minutes, and it changes what happens next.