For new years I decided to escape the gloom and coldness of London so a friend and I went off some place warm.
I've sat next to a homeopathic healer on a long haul flight before, and I kept my mouth mostly shut... Mostly (I consider them to be nothing more than con artists playing on ignorance and desire to health, thou I grant some provide a kind of sympathy n bulldung that some ill people may consider worth paying for, we know categorically from meta analysis they peddle ****, we know scientifically, they peddle ****. Most vendors either have to be really dumb or cruel beyond my imagination).
But this one, this one was knew. I needed some DEET, having had my bottle nicely leak on the plane over (I always wrap things like that in bags in bags thou, so no damage, just a mess). I pop in to a pharmacy, small queue, girl in front making quite the scene.
In plenty of parts of SEA, its very common for the Pharmacist to be a GP light, they serve as the general help me get better person. This girl explains her symptoms, coughing up cloudy sometimes bloody mucus, obvious swelling, pharmacist takes her temp, she is running a high fever. Pharmacist says to have some amoxicillin for the chest infection, worried about how long she has had the fever suggests parrotseatthemall, plenty of hot teas and avoid sleeping with AC on, general advice about fluids.
The girl turns round to say "no, I don't want any big pharama western medicence". The pharmacist informs her politely that she is sick, badly so. She explains she doesn't trust 'drugs' and is quite offensive to the lady who has spent an obvious long time studying for her exams to reach the qualification of pharmacist.
She walks out of the store in a complete huff.
Are people so badly educated they don't remember the fact people died of the simplest things only a very few years ago. Yes antibiotics are often over prescribed, people don't finish the corse etc, but still, I think she'll be paying someone to be her nurse very soon as she won't be walking around much longer without treatment. The mind boggles.
So people of hexus, what is your best experiance of patients following advice?


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