>For most of my life I'd throw away the Rx after leaving the MD's office.
>A few recent episodes changed my viewpoint.
>It helps to have an MD you think you can trust- and I have one.

I'm married to one and she doesn't give me any meds. We still have the republican insurance from our US years ("be healthy!") and it still works. My medication is two small (200mg) ibuprofens a year. Okay, it was six of them last year, but that was a dental problem, fixed that and now I think I've already used up half of my quota for this year.

And, mind you, haven't been to a doctor for decades. My last (and, AFAIR, the only) sick leave was in 1994. and that actually started as a fake, I told the doc to write me something around code 300 - psycho stuff - and it turned out to be correct, I did feel better in a couple of days, and used up the whole month... but that was more of a career move and in-office politics than medicine.

This would also mean that if in ten years from now, if I develop any medical condition, even the simple old medications should work just fine, as I haven't built any resistance to them.