Originally Posted by Unregistered

I literally just saw a patient yesterday who was started on Tamsulosin by someone else.
But he’s a poor blur uncle.
After listening to the pharmacist rant on about the side effects, all he remembered was that the drug “can make my eye red and swollen” and so he collected but did not start the medication at all. He’s not well educated.

Imagine having a computer system / algorithm spit out all these random words at you.
Even if it quotes a very low probability of this side effect, the layman will not be able to understand it and make an appropriate decision.
Is 0.1% very high? Is floppy iris syndrome going to hit everyone?

As I said, not sure if you are a doctor.
If you are a patient, it’s understandable that you would make such grand statements.
Because you only see things from an individual perspective.
As doctors who has seen thousands of patients, some probably more, we have seen the whole spectrum.