If you're going to take a medicine, it is also important to ask about side effects. MDs have a tendency to recommend a drug and not emphasize the possible side effects because it is not practical; there are just too many. If MDs disclosed all the complications of medications people would not want them; they'd be far more interested in lifestyle management. Even Tylenol is not a good idea, especially in hospitalized patients, because it interferes with detoxification and has many other surprising "side effects."
