How has the patient's access to drug information changed the way the patient interacts with the nurse and other health care providers?
A) Patients share information from research reports with health care providers.
B) Patients are contacting drug companies to see what their latest reports say.
C) Patients are more likely to challenge the health care provider with their own research.
D) Patients are more likely to self-prescribe and not obtain prescriptions from their health care provider.
C
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Access to consumer advertising, mass media health reports, and the Internet influence some patients to request specific treatments, to question therapy, and to challenge the health care provider. Consumers do not generally read research reports from medical facilities and contact drug companies to see what their reports say, and they cannot self-medicate because many of these drugs require a prescription to obtain them.
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