I wish the Flu would just Fly (Flu) Away

Very little has changed. Still very sick. The doctor misdiagnosed me... He said I had a sinus infection and gastritis. WRONG! It's the flu. It would be a really novel idea for doctors to actually PUT TOGETHER the body rather than see it is all these separate "entitities." If there's a problem in your lungs, they give you something for that. If there's something with your stomach, they give you something for that. Rather than seeing the body as a whole. Had this doctor actually used his brain, he would have realized that some flus start in the stomach and move to congestion. Especially considering that my body hurt all over and my fatigue was FAR from the "normal" kind of fatigue from a sinus infection.

Some of the problem is that doctors (these days) take all of 4 minutes for an exam and then quickly prescribe whatever medication SEEMS logical/practical or one that a pharmaceutical recommended and then move on to their next patient.

If I sound very annoyed, it' because I am... I was put on antibiotics (that are doing no good because that doesn't work for flu) and told to get Prevacid for my stomach (Prevacid is VERY expensive) and also wouldn't have done anything to help my stomach and would have, in fact, probably hurt it because Prevacid stops your stomach from producing digestive acids. Now that would have been a really big help to me (NOT!). Some of the reason I'm so annoyed is because of years of my daughter's illness and recovery, I'm tired of misdiagnoses, wrong medications and just the general corporatization of the medical profession.

Is there a REAL doctor in the house?