•- When you are admitted to the hospital, take your updated Medicine List or bring all of your medicines in the original bottles. Include over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbals.
•- Tell your physician, nurse, or other provider about any allergies or reactions that you have had to medicine in the past. Also, write these on your Medicine List.
•- If you feel that any medicine is making you sick or causing you pain, tell the physician or nurse right away.
•- When you are being sent home from the hospital, ask your physician or nurse to tell
you what medicines you should be taking, and how to take them.You can be given an
updated Medicine List before you leave the
hospital.
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