I think that my GP's willingness to suggest non-pharmaceutical remedies may have been formed during the ten years he spent practicing in some remote Inuit community in what is now Nunavut. A similar situation, where isolation and poverty had forced a reliance on herbal lore

Ah. I knew when you said in a previous post that he didn't like prescribing that he couldn't have been a proper New Zealand doctor. Most doctors I've encountered (mercifully few - I have little faith in the medical profession) reach for their prescription pads before you've had time to sit down ...

Having said that, my doctor in Wellington actually listened to your symptoms before prescribing one of the penicillin equivalents!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...