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Okay ..I do not think she was being "condescended to" and you seem to be "over reacting" and impugning ones past professional experience without proof is not pleasant for the rest of us to read....

 

Vitamins and even medicines come from food----vitamin C, A, E etc. I wonder why you discredit food as the better option when it comes to treating certain illnesses as they boost our body's immune system. Antiobiotics are not supposed to be used for the long term, I know that & as a mother I do not pretend to be a doctor but knowledge about health is not the exclusive domain of those who finished medicine. Yes, viral fever does not respond to antibiotics, that's a known fact. It is only when the fever continues after 3 days that a prescription for antibiotics is considered. A fever that goes away after 3 days is just viral so there is no need of any medicine but you will be advised to take plenty of fluids or liquids and NUTRITIOUS FOODS. You have misunderstood much of what I said.

My use of LOL---why what's wrong with that? I use LOL a lot---it's part of my nature. I do not see any problem there.

 

If I thought there was a serious illness then I would not argue - just take the child to hospital. It is like all these phone numbers they have in many countries, where they mostly try to stop you using emergency services - in what I think might be an urgent case I just don't phone anyone but go direct to ER.

 

I think there are specific antibiotics for bacterial infections---it's VIRAL FEVER that has no medicine as it stays only for 3 days and goes away supposedly. Yeah, you are right about needing no doctor's prescriptions back in the day. I used to buy antibiotics directly as doctors usually use the same brand every time. It is different now 'coz pharmacists always ask for a prescription-----tsk--tsk--tsk---is it part of the money-making scheme of pharmacists and physicians?

 

well if you already have an established relationship with an ENT that you trust then that is where i would begin! one nice thing about the phils is that even the board certified docs are affordable!!

 

first graduating class was 2010 for the med school

 

Manila.

 

This is my story with our friends at S.U.M.C.F. : -

There is also a certain doctor there I wouldn't use again either and sadly, I was dying. This was after 4 days in the hospital, me drifting in & out of consciousness, as peritonitis and septicemia established a firm grip.
The only reason that I'm still here is that on the advice of my oncologist in Manila, my family medivac-ed me to her hospital.
The consultant, operating surgeon there, told my family my chances of survival were 1 in 4, because of age and how close I was to septic shock because of the delay in competent treatment.
He & his team operated on me, within a few hours of arrival, I survived a 6-7 hour surgery & 4-5 days in ICU. They had also arranged units of blood, my group is very rare here in Philippines, before I arrived, as did a club I am in too at that hospital.
Yes, it was expensive, had I not had insurance I would have had quite a situation. The only things I go back to Silliman for normally now, are to do blood work for my hospital in Manila or to see/visit my friends who are doctors there for the last 30 years.