Your GP should be brought up in front of the medical council for that. You should report them.
The Doctor did not know the medical history of the OP or examine them.Why, exactly?
I'm not a medic, nor have I any connection with the medical profession but I don't think that providing advice by phone without an examination is inherently unethical. The North East Doctor on Call service have provided telephone advice to my family on several occasions including once when one of our children (aged only two weeks old at the time) displayed worrying symptoms. This was very useful to us at the time and I could not by the wildest stretch of the imagination class this assistance as unethical.The Doctor did not know the medical history of the OP or examine them.
This may be the case depending on the circumstances but it hardly holds true for every situation?Issuing a prescription in these circumstances is unsafe.
Again this depends on the circumstances.There have been numerous cases highlighted in the media of Doctors issuing (selling) sick certs to people that they have not examined or to people who they have examined but are not sick. This is, at the very least, unethical.
In many cases GPs will make diagnosis and possibly prescribe certain drugs based on a simple Q&A consultation with no physical examination - e.g. asking about symptoms and any previous history of reactions to or risk factors related to the drugs being prescribed. Whether this is done face to face or over the phone makes no odds as far as I can see.telephone consuls aren't unethical , but the prescribing of anti biotics without seeing the patient seems a bit strange, esp in this day and age.
Are you sure that your GP prescribed antibiotics? After all they only work on bacterial infections and flu is a virus!This is correct. I was more than happy with not having to have a proper consultation, mainly because Id rather not waste a doctors time with a basic flu
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