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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dad is an immigrant and barely speaks English so I am in charge of all his communications with his dr. 
Long story short dad eats healthy and takes long walks, isn’t overweight etc, but does get some bouts of high blood pressure and his cholesterol is a bit elevated. He was prescribed sone meds for it but is resistant towards taking them. 
To be honest I don’t really care what he does and I have no strong opinion on whether he needs them, I just don’t want to be in the middle of it. He is now asking if I can ask if he can take half the dose of the statins he was prescribed etc, I don’t know what he wants to do with his HBP meds yet, but I am already super annoyed by all this wiffle waffling.

[b]what should i do?[/b] he was told to start taking meds and follow up with the dr in a month. i am super busy at work until April. i am tempted to just tell him not to take the meds yet, and send him to his next appointment with an interpreter and let him figure it out instead of me being there. 
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Set him up in the Dr's patient portal and send messages back and forth.[/quote]

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