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Some people today prefer to get advice for medical problems and do not want to visit a doctor. Why is this? Is this a positive or a negative development?

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Some people tend to consult about their medical issues in
drugstore
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a drugstore
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instead
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 of visiting a doctor.
However
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 preparing drugs without consultation with a doctor may
has
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have
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 some consequences, it decreases lots of expenses. In my
opinion
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 both
of
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apply
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developments have their advantages and disadvantages which will
illustrated
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be illustrated
illustrate
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 in
this
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 essay. In some
countries
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,countries
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 self-treatment is
such
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 popular that people visit doctors only in urgent and critical positions. One of the benefits of self-treatment is
time saving
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time-saving
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.
For instance
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,
instead
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 of waiting in clinics and doctors’ offices several hours to be visited, you can buy the drugs you need in
a drugstores
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drugstores
a drugstore
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 directly.
In addition
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, in some
areas
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 there are plenty of herbal drugs which can help you to overcome your illness and in most cases they are effective. These days treatments fee is high significantly;
therefore
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, it does not worth
to visit
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visiting
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 a doctor for simple problems like
headache
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headaches
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,
stomachache
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stomachaches
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,
cold
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colds
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 and so on.
Although
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 not visiting doctors can reduce expenses and save time, there are some aftereffects which sometimes are very perilous.
Firstly
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, some
medicines
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 have several side effects and people should be aware
about
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of
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 them before consumption. To illustrate, there are a bunch of
medicines
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which
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that
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 take consumers to sleep and if someone
take
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takes
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this
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these
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medicines
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 while driving and do not know about
its
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their
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 side effects, it may
causes
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cause
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 a horrible car accident.
Secondly
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,
wrong
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the wrong
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 detection causes unsuitable
medicines
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 consumption which may result in serious problems and death occasionally. To conclude, generally if somebody
buy
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buys
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 a medicine for a simple problem base on the knowledge which they have about their body may be effective, they should be aware
about
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of
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 its marginal effects and
dangerous
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dangers
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 of unsuitable drug usage though. From my point of
view
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,view
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 self-treatment is a positive development if it
be
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is
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 done logically.

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