Is there any (legal) way to get antibiotics without seeing a doctor? I can't afford a doctor. I just need some antibiotics.

2/23/2007 9:28:34 PM

no

2/23/2007 9:35:27 PM

buy livestock antibiotics and inject yourself

hope you know what you're doing

2/23/2007 9:36:26 PM

Why the hell do I need a doctor to tell me I'm sick? I think I can figure that out for myself. And it's not like erythromycin is dangerous.

2/23/2007 9:37:30 PM

just let me gettum drugs

2/23/2007 9:40:18 PM

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"And it's not like erythromycin is dangerous."

or effective

2/23/2007 9:41:08 PM

can't you go to student health for free?

2/23/2007 9:41:53 PM

antibiotics dont work for viruses

2/23/2007 10:06:57 PM

about 2 out of 3 docs at student health will give you antibiotics on a just in case basis any time you go in sick... atleast thats how it was the last 4 academic years when i was there

2/23/2007 10:14:59 PM

you don't need antibiotics if you haven't seen a doctor.

2/23/2007 11:39:16 PM

just go to a minute clinic.

2/24/2007 11:57:27 AM

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"Why the hell do I need a doctor to tell me I'm sick? I think I can figure that out for myself. "

i wish someone would tell all these doctors that they wasted their time and money going to school for all those years...i mean, we can just diagnose ourselves!

seriously, you're an idiot, but go ahead, you'll probably stop the antibiotics short and build up antibiotic-resistant bacteria and die

2/24/2007 2:08:04 PM

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"about 2 out of 3 docs at student health will give you antibiotics on a just in case basis any time you go in sick... atleast thats how it was the last 4 academic years when i was there"

they have changed their policy now

you would pretty much have to walk in there with a limb hanging off or a piece of metal in your body to get anitbiotics

2/24/2007 3:06:02 PM

what are your symptoms? If you have a cold, antibiotics wouldn't help.

2/24/2007 6:55:10 PM

^exactly...dude what are you thinking? If you can't afford to goto the doc then you don't need the antibiotics. If you felt bad enough to actually think you needed a doc then you would go! You prolly have the flu or some damn cold that you can buy some OTCs to mask the symptoms until you are better ffs.

[Edited on February 24, 2007 at 10:15 PM. Reason : arg]

2/24/2007 10:14:27 PM

i went to student health the other day and was in there for less then five minutes and the doc gave me antibiotics. i already knew i had a sinus infection, so i just described all my symptoms and she looked in my ears and my throat and gave me antibiotics.

2/25/2007 11:14:30 AM

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"Why the hell do I need a doctor to tell me I'm sick?"

gotta love the self-prescribing fools that think they know medicine. like 93formula said, the reason docs aren't handing antibiotics out like candy anymore is because people don't take their full fucking course...they stop when they feel better (subclinical levels of bacteria still in their bodies), the small population of resistant bugs build up, they get sick again, pass it to someone else, and boom we have a community full of drug-resistant infections. thanks!

/rant

2/25/2007 11:43:32 AM