News Health & Medicine How doctors can help demystify birth control amid online confusion Concerns about birth control side effects reveal patient and provider disconnect Person-centered contraceptive counseling focuses on the patient's preferences and priorities. Those may include being able to stop a method at any time or wanting to avoid side effects. Nadezhda Buravleva/iStock/Getty Images Plus Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Aimee Cunningham July 9, 2024 at 9:00 am A young woman in a TikTok video unfolds a drug information package insert, revealing a paper large enough to cover her curled up body.