I am being regularly asked by my healthcare provider which drugs I take, on each visit's checkin. They'd be happy to have the Rx, but in many cases the patient doesn't even have one - it's buried somewhere "in the system", and if you change providers, you don't get anything from the old one - hopefully the new one knows how to talk to the old one to get the info. So there's nothing to "bring" to the office.
> It's a bad think that I know that the three drugs I take are a diuretic, a beta blocker, and an angiotensin receptor blocker?
No, it's not a bad thing that you know that, it's just about 99.999% of people have no idea what a "beta blocker" is. So for them that information is completely useless, moreover, if they plan to act on it, it may be dangerous, because they may confuse "beta blocker" with some other "blocker" and make some important decision based on that, without understanding the real consequences. If you are knowledgeable enough to know what "beta blocker" is and how it works - sure, it's useful for you, but vast majority of people don't know that and never will.
> It's a bad think that I know that the three drugs I take are a diuretic, a beta blocker, and an angiotensin receptor blocker?
No, it's not a bad thing that you know that, it's just about 99.999% of people have no idea what a "beta blocker" is. So for them that information is completely useless, moreover, if they plan to act on it, it may be dangerous, because they may confuse "beta blocker" with some other "blocker" and make some important decision based on that, without understanding the real consequences. If you are knowledgeable enough to know what "beta blocker" is and how it works - sure, it's useful for you, but vast majority of people don't know that and never will.