If I eat cornflakes, I’ll no longer be an introvert. Got it. 
Maybe I should go get a job at General Mills.
Don’t you have “urgent care” clinics in Australia? That’s where you go in the US if you need care after hours or are unable to get an appointment with your regular doctor (and it’s not bad enough for the emergency room.) They are generally first come, first served.
They are around, but not common and usually operate after hours only. They too rely on the elusive doctor being available to run them.
Somehow this thread got conflated on itself (this may be a first)–there is no premise that breakfast cereal is tied to anxiety. No, not even by Dr. Froot Loop himself.
I laughed at the pt oral meds story. Been there, done that. I had a doctor tell me once that he was going to give me orders and the next time I called, “I want that man’s blood gases to be normal.”
Um. Okay-I’ll do what I can, seeing as how the pt was in respiratory failure and septic shock. Get right on that one, bub. :rolleyes: When I called him back–the gases were NOT normal. Poor pt died later that day. I’ve often wondered what the doctor thought I could do to make the results normal–draw my own blood and share those results with him? 
Actually, Inositol (a B-vitamin) has shown to be effective in treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
But this doctor sounds like a real quack. Did he say “HI, EV’RYBODY!” when he entered the waiting room?
Am i the only one who thinks it might be a good idea to report this guy to the medical board. Youn don’t have to say anything much, just that he was pushy, sharing outright freakish theories and trying to prescribe medication for nonexistant problems, and that he’s making you very, very uncomfortable. They’ll possibly investigate.
The eqiovalent would probably be the “Bulk Billing clinics” (Bulk Billing means you get the cost charged straight to the government health system, and don’t pay out of pocket. They are getting less common since the health system rates of pay aren’t keeping up with the actual cost to a doctor’s practise of seeing patients)
Generally they’d have a number of doctors available, seeing patients as per a usual GP, but they stay open later and have a more transient population of patients.
There are actually a couple of places up the road - maybe they’ll be next on my list next time. And of course I * could* have gone to ER but - anything humany possible to avoid that!
smiling bandit I’m not sure if I thought it was really “reportable” - I mean, the first time, yeah I think he got it wrong, but that can happen. And this time - well, for all my annoyance with him personally, he did actually give me medecine, and it did appear to work (not that I’ll necessarily be trusting him with anything complex, mind you). I do think his pet theory is probably interfering with his job performance but - how far is too far? He’s a junior doctor in a practise of three - I’ve seen the “main” doctor before (he wasn’t there on friday) and have nothing particularly against (or, TBH, for) him. Maybe I should just write a letter to him (the senior doctor) though…
Well don’t just stand there, eleanor, go get the wand. 
Prescribing medication for nonexistant problems is, in my non-medical opinion, a good basis for filing a claim (although its possible that the doctor’s actions in this case were within the applicable standard of care). If Australia is anything like the U.S., however, Aspidistra may have trouble filing a complaint based on the doctor’s strange theories. Medical licensing boards generally don’t accept complaints for what they deem to be “personality conflicts.” That’s why I couldn’t file a complaint against one doctor who, on my first visit, insisted that my mother was faking her fibromyalgia for attention (he had asked my family history) and allowed his office staff to drop F-bombs left and right. Unprofessional, yes, but unfortunately not a licensing issue.
Damn it! I left in my other lab coat!
stoopit doctor.
Which B vitamin IS inositol, anyway?
Well that’s good.
But the baby was only 4 days old when this started. Don’t they come with some kind of warranty? You know, take him back to the hospital where you got him and have them fix him?
At least that’s how it worked when I bought a new car.
Maybe it’s something about breakfast cereals. John Harvey Kellogg had some pretty bizarre ideas of his own.
Ya’no, there might be a reason why his thesis has taken fourteen years.
Ya know who was an introvert?
Captain Crunch.
Now THAT was one anxious mother fucker.
Don’t get me started on Sonny the Cuckoo bird.
Yeah, but Tony the Tiger turned out all right.
The leprachaun seems fairly outgoing…
According to thefreedictionary.com (otherwise known as the dictionary add-on to my Firefox browser):
My mother practically cut dairy out of her diet when I was breast-feeding and I grew up to be extremely introverted and have significant anxiety issues. Wonder what that means?
Ooh, my parents tried that. Apparently babies don’t work that way.
(For real: I had digestive issues from day one that were misdiagnosed several times. Factor in surgery at the age of six months that failed to correct the problem, the further digestive issues, the need for speech therapy, even more digestive issues…I’m surprised my parents didn’t truly try to return me as defective merchandise!)
I’m telling you, that baby is NOT going back where he came from. (all very-nearly-four-kilos of him - that’s 8 pounds 12 ounces for you old-fashioned folks)
No way, no how!
Covered baby-bumper to baby-bumper for three years or 30,000 diapers, whichever comes first?