Useless Doctor is Useless
Written by Ithiel on Friday, June 5th.
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Useless Doctors are Useless!
As I mentioned yesterday, I haz teh sniffles. Well, it was a little worse than just ‘teh sniffles’, and because the whole world has gone ‘swine flu crazy’, I figured it would be best to go and see a GP to make sure everything wasn’t awake and that I wasn’t going to turn into bacon strips.
Useless Doctor who is useless goes ‘eh, u no can haz piggies, just bronchitis. haz pills, be better soon, kk?’. Being that I was a new patient at that clinic and had just filled out the form listing all my allergies (including penacillin - which they have only just finished reading), I figured asking the question of ‘will these tablets kill me?’ was a kinda redundant action. Trusting his decades of medical training and thinking ‘oh, coolies - nice and simple’, I happily took the tablets he suggested and went on my merry way. More fool me.
The tablets he gave me were Moxiclav Duo Forte, Amoxycillin/clavulanic acid tablets. Have no clue what that is? Me either.. He’s the doctor, not me - I ignore words with more than 8 letters. After taking the tablet while having a late lunch with my mum, she (being the ever curious one) decided to read the health warning slip tucked in at the bottom of the box. She almost fell out of her chair when she noticed the big heading titled ‘WARNING: Do not take if you have had an allergic reaction to penacillin’.
Fu*k..
Yeah.. A rather panicked call back to the doctor had the linguistically-challenged Iranian doctor saying ‘oh… you better come back here straight away’. 2 huge arse injections, including a steroids injection in my thigh left me totally wiped out and in more pain than I was before the doctor. So… On that note, I’m going back to bed. Next time, I stick to all that natural crap >.<
Have you had a bad experiance with an imported doctor?
Did you find the ‘made in china‘ stam on the bottom of his shoe too? :-/
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yeah thats hilarious, am i about to get raped? oh its a hidden camera.
That’s ridiculous! You know, people would sue their doc for that in the US lol! I’m lucky and have had the same GP since the day I was born. Which he reminds me of whenever he asks me one of those embarrasing “Are you sexually active?”, “When did you last menstruate?”, “How are your bowels?”, types of questions … seriously I think he has alot of fun with my discomfort :S
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I don’t know about suing, but we will be reporting him. If we didn’t notice that warning, making a complaint would be the least of my concerns.
And if the injections weren’t bad enough, the Dr. Useless even had the nerve to call me fat >.<
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good to see your still with us
just a tip, check yourself even without the warning- Amoxycillin for instance ‘cillin’ in this means it has your favorite alergy..
at you have every legal right to sue him, and i’m guessing a Pharmacist was involved.. you can complain about/sue them too
but at least theres no pigs involved.. get well soon
i should have picked up on that, but my brain was just so out of it by that stage that I just took the pills without thinking about it.
The pharmacist filled the script, but they didn’t know me from a grain of salt, so it’s not their fault – they just followed the doc’s instructions.
It’s the doctor I am really pissed at… We filled out the paperwork, telling the clinic my alergies, and he completly ignored it. He didn’t even ask me what I was alergic to like he should have if he didn’t get the paperwork.
On a side note, we approached the medical board and they said my first step is to write a detailed ‘i’m really pissed off at you’ letter to the doctor and to the clinic manager. /sigh.
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the pharmacist is supposed to check your allergies.. its a safeguard in the system (obviously didn’t work)
just don’t do it again!
I hope the worst of the swine flu has long gone over us.