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Subject: qould you give choice between pills and a shot Author: mandi [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 07:49: pm if you were a doctor and you had a sick patient would you give them the option of taking pills of giving them a shot? i feel that if i was a doctor then i would give them the choice of taking pills for so many days or getting a shot. what are your opinions on this? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: qould you give choice between pills and a shot Author: Tim [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 02:19: am Hi Mandi, Im sure the few professionals here will say they give a shot to be sure people take their medicine. I find in New York, in private doctors offices, pills are offered as the first choice. In hospitals it is probably a shot since the doctor who examined the patient has no emotional tie to that patient. Therefore, it would be easier for the doctor to just order an injection and move to the next patient. I guess leave the nurse to do the honors and Im sure most nurses enjoy it. But in my doctors office im not even sure they have injections. Ive never been offered anything but pills nor have i seen any other patient given the same.....From the people who post here, I would think there's almost a joy in giving injections......Just a thought.....Cheers [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: qould you give choice between pills and a shot Author: Max [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 02:26: pm I think that a Dr. get a kick back ( $ )frome a pill corp. I the Dr. give the patients there pills. Dr. is this true ?? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: qould you give choice between pills and a shot Author: layla [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 06:57: pm I rarely prescribe shots but I find that there is a certain believe that shots work better among some patients in that case a painful shot must be added to their treatment or they feel that they are never going to get better and many of them would come in follow up visits asking to replace pills with shots and if there is no replacement they will ask to add a shot or two to their treatment so I usually add vitamin shots. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: qould you give choice between pills and a shot Author: Tim [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 01:16: am Thanks Layla, I never understood the concept of Vitamin shots or even B12. Any halfway intelligent physician can tell you they do zero. There are certain conditions where one might have a shortage of Vitamin B, but that is rare. I guess everyone wants to believe in the land of Oz........Cheers..... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: qould you give choice between pills and a shot Author: chris [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Monday, March 04, 2013, 05:49: am I hate pills, also when i can choice i will take the shot [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: qould you give choice between pills and a shot Author: Nick (refusing injection) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Saturday, April 12, 2014, 06:48: pm Having grown up in the era of penicillin shots, visits to the doctor normally ended with me pulling everything down to my ankles and bending over the receptionist's lap to get one. I feared the embarrassment more than the pain, especially in adolescence because I deemed the treatment childish. When I went to the doctor with his beautiful teenaged daughter acting receptionist during the school holidays, I was more terrified than ever before. I really fancied her and desperately craved her respect, so I didn't want her even to know that I still got injections back there, much less endure the incredible humiliation of bending across her delightfully mini-skirted lap for her to watch me get one where I sit. By the time the doctor received me I was so pent-up with fearful emotion that his rhetorical question, "How about a shot?" made me burst into tears and he made it worse by asking in the girl's presence, "What's wrong? It's just your usual shot in the bottom." He relented and prescribed pills but I later realised that my tantrum must have made me appear even more childish to his daughter than I would have bare-bottomed across her lap for the shot. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]