GP with alternative medicine background?

Hello,
would anyone know a GP with homeopathic/holistic background too? Ideally around the D2 or D6 area.
Thank you very much!

DemocAnarchis

I'd hope not! Most GPs would be reluctant to prescribe antibiotics if possible anyway.

Unfortunately this is not my experience.

L1011

If a GP judges you need an antibiotic and you refuse to take one they aren't going to sign off on a potential return to work date on a cert. Wouldn't be worth the liability to their medical negligence insurance or medical registration.

I would also hope there isn't a GP in the land who believes in homeopathic nonsense. ITS WATER.

recipesforme

Hi Hopppipolla,

Dr Madeline Stringer in Dundrum is a fully qualified GP and practices as such, but she also has a background in alternative therapies as they are not mutually exclusive.

If you google her name you'll find her details

loyatemu

recipesforme wrote: »

Dr Madeline Stringer in Dundrum is a fully qualified GP and practices as such, but she also has a background in alternative therapies as they are not mutually exclusive.

they bloody well should be mutually exclusive - I assume medical doctors learn about the scientific method when they are being trained, & homeopathy is thoroughly discredited bunk.

At best it's a placebo, but giving it any credence (say by having a qualified GP using it) will only encourage people to disregard and avoid actual scientifically tested treatments, with potentially tragic consequences.

recipesforme

Hi loyatemu.

The OP asked for the name of a "GP with homeopathic/holistic background", not everyone's opinions on homeopathy.

L1011

recipesforme wrote: »

Hi loyatemu.

The OP asked for the name of a "GP with homeopathic/holistic background", not everyone's opinions on homeopathy.

Homeopathy not working is not an opinion

recipesforme

Nor is it an answer to the OPs question

loyatemu

recipesforme wrote: »

Hi loyatemu.

The OP asked for the name of a "GP with homeopathic/holistic background", not everyone's opinions on homeopathy.

"they are not mutually exclusive" is an opinion and that's what I was responding to.

Mitch Connor

recipesforme wrote: »

Hi loyatemu.

The OP asked for the name of a "GP with homeopathic/holistic background", not everyone's opinions on homeopathy.

And this is a discussion site where discussions can spring from questions asked. This is not Ask.com, or Google. The OP doesn't get to decide how people react to their question.

recipesforme

And yet no one was actually providing a reply. Why would anyone bother asking anything if it's constantly going to be derailed?

I was merely trying to help out the OP by providing an answer to the question they asked

keyboard_cat

L1011 wrote: »

If a GP judges you need an antibiotic and you refuse to take one they aren't going to sign off on a potential return to work date on a cert. Wouldn't be worth the liability to their medical negligence insurance or medical registration.

I would also hope there isn't a GP in the land who believes in homeopathic nonsense. ITS WATER.

I was sick a few weeks ago with flu and chest infection my GP gave me a prescription for antibiotics to which i said i didn't need and wouldn't take and he still gave me a cert for work and MC1 form.

Tar.Aldarion

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/well/the-cost-of-not-taking-your-medicine.html

There is an out-of-control epidemic in the United States that costs more and affects more people than any disease Americans currently worry about. It’s called nonadherence to prescribed medications, and it is — potentially, at least — 100 percent preventable by the very individuals it afflicts.

The numbers are staggering. “Studies have consistently shown that 20 percent to 30 percent of medication prescriptions are never filled, and that approximately 50 percent of medications for chronic disease are not taken as prescribed,” according to a review in Annals of Internal Medicine. People who do take prescription medications — whether it’s for a simple infection or a life-threatening condition — typically take only about half the prescribed doses.

This lack of adherence, the Annals authors wrote, is estimated to cause approximately 125,000 deaths and at least 10 percent of hospitalizations, and to cost the American health care system between $100 billion and $289 billion a year.

...

Martina1991

keyboard_cat wrote:

I was sick a few weeks ago with flu and chest infection my GP gave me a prescription for antibiotics to which i said i didn't need and wouldn't take and he still gave me a cert for work and MC1 form.

How do you know you didn't need it.

spurious

Martina1991 wrote: »

How do you know you didn't need it.

Everyone in Ireland is an expert on everything. It's part of our charm.

keyboard_cat

Martina1991 wrote: »

How do you know you didn't need it.

Because i could feel myself getting better every day and was more or less at the end of my sickness by the time i went to the doctor (i only really went for the cert for work). Also having the doctor say to me to take the amoxicillin just to speed the recovery process along i just didn't see the point when i knew i was recovering fine without it (i was back to normal 3 days later perhaps with the antibiotics i would have been better in 2 i who knows).

Anyways i just felt the doctor was very flippant in prescribing them he didn't argue with me or say it was a bad idea when i said i wouldn't take them. and it fairly well document that antibiotics are way over prescribed and all the problems that is causing which also came into my decision making a bit

arybvtcw0eolkf

Martina1991 wrote: »

How do you know you didn't need it.

Because there was a bottle of flat 7UP on standby

Dr Brown

L1011 wrote: »

If a GP judges you need an antibiotic and you refuse to take one they aren't going to sign off on a potential return to work date on a cert. Wouldn't be worth the liability to their medical negligence insurance or medical registration.

I would also hope there isn't a GP in the land who believes in homeopathic nonsense. ITS WATER.

Homeopathy must have some value given that the British royal family use it and they live well into their 80s and 90s.

Walter Bishop

No it musn't, just because someone allegedly uses it and is old, it does not necessarily follow that homeopathy had anything to do with it.

It has been debunked by numerous studies, so if you prefer anecdotes to data then fire away, but homeopathy has no effect on you except to lighten your wallet.

Dr Brown

Walter Bishop wrote: »

No it musn't, just because someone allegedly uses it and is old, it does not necessarily follow that homeopathy had anything to do with it.

It has been debunked by numerous studies, so if you prefer anecdotes to data then fire away, but homeopathy has no effect on you except to lighten your wallet.

My point is that the royal family must be doing something right to live so long.

They also have very low rates of cancer compared with the general population.

Amirani

Dr Brown wrote: »

My point is that the royal family must be doing something right to live so long.

They also have very low rates of cancer compared with the general population.

Might be something to do with having immediate access to world class healthcare and living relatively privileged lifestyles?

endacl

Danielle Plain Banner wrote: »

Because there was a bottle of flat 7UP on standby

Don't ever keep it in the fridge. Only works at room temperature.

endacl

Dr Brown wrote: »

My point is that the royal family must be doing something right to live so long.

https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/Buckingham+Palace,+Westminster,+London+SW1A+1AA,+UK/Harley+St,+Marylebone,+London,+UK/data=!4m8!4m7!1m2!1m1!1s0x48760520cd5b5eb5:0xa26abf514d902a7!1m2!1m1!1s0x48761ad3fd41b157:0x3c0f893e87f77ec8!3e0?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0n8rQteLZAhVJW8AKHYG0D94Qox0INzAA

Sleeper12

keyboard_cat wrote:

I was sick a few weeks ago with flu and chest infection my GP gave me a prescription for antibiotics to which i said i didn't need and wouldn't take and he still gave me a cert for work and MC1 form.

Why pay a GP & then not take their advice?

endacl

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Why pay a GP & then not take their advice?

It's the downside to postmodernism. Every opinion carries equal weight.

Dr Brown

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Why pay a GP & then not take their advice?

Because they could be wrong.

I notice most GP's will want to write a prescription at the end of the consultation no matter what the issue is.

endacl

Dr Brown wrote: »

Because they could be wrong.

I notice most GP's will want to write a prescription at the end of the consultation no matter what the issue is.

I haven't noticed that. You need to find a new doctor, or start taking better care of yourself!

L1011

Dr Brown wrote: »

Homeopathy must have some value given that the British royal family use it and they live well into their 80s and 90s.

No, it has absolutely none. It is nonsense that preys on the vulnerable.

odyssey06

Dr Brown wrote: »

Homeopathy must have some value given that the British royal family use it and they live well into their 80s and 90s.

Maybe in the 19th century when the alternative was leeches and blood-letting and mercury...

But this doesn't seem very homeopathic...
"The Duke of Edinburgh is due to have an exploratory operation on his abdomen after spending the night in hospital. The Queen's husband, who will be 92 on Monday, was admitted to the London Clinic on Thursday and is expected to stay in hospital for about two weeks."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22809285

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/746446/queen-elizabeth-ill-sick-illness-unwell-cold-past-health

keyboard_cat

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Why pay a GP & then not take their advice?

Because i only needed the sick cert for work

Captain Flaps

Do you not think your employer would have rathered you be back in 2 days instead of 3 if you'd taken the meds?

Del2005

keyboard_cat wrote: »

Anyways i just felt the doctor was very flippant in prescribing them he didn't argue with me or say it was a bad idea when i said i wouldn't take them. and it fairly well document that antibiotics are way over prescribed and all the problems that is causing which also came into my decision making a bit

The problem with antibiotics isn't really from over use in humans, though its a issue when people insist on antibiotics for viruses, it's farmers in countries with lax regulations giving it to animals to fatten them up.

I can't understand how anyone could possibly believe in homeopathy. It's utterly debunked nonsense. In fact if anyone does know of a GP who believes in this rubbish could they please actually answer the OP - so the rest of us can avoid them like the plague.