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Managing Your Medical Care (Topic Center)

Managing Your Medical Care

Find tips on everything from taking care of your body to choosing the right health care providers.

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Your How-to Basics

Do you know what to do in a health emergency? If you have a chronic condition, how do you make the shift to an adult doctor? Find out more here.

Find a Doctor

How do you find the right doctor for you?

Choosing a doctor

Changing doctors

Doctors for teens

Talking With Your Doctor

Talking with your doctor and asking questions helps keep you healthy.

What to say

Questions to ask

Your Mental Health

Taking care of your mental health can help you feel good. 

Finding low-cost mental health care

Going to therapy

Be Prepared

When you are prepared, you can handle almost anything.

What to do in an emergency

Frequently Asked Questions About Medicines

  • When you get a prescription, pick a pharmacy and find out if your insurance will pay for the medicine.

    Learn how

  • The label on your medicine gives you lots of information, including how many refills you have.

    Find out more

  • The best way to get rid of medicine you no longer need is to take it to a medicine disposal program.

    See how easy it is

  • Taking prescription drugs in a way that hasn't been recommended by a doctor can be more dangerous than many people realize.

    Find out why