I ask because I’ve just been “diagnosed” with a chronic illness (YMMV. Second opinions, yay! 🙄), and I am not kidding when I say that the public healthcare system where I am IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER MY LIFE…
Monthly treatments, for the rest of my life (not gonna happen), blood tests every month, MRIs every 3 months, specialist appointments every 4-6, “compulsory” flu and coof injections, etc, etc, etc…
Some of that I may put up with (if it helps). Some I will not.
But I just wonder… Can they actually force me?? This isn’t America, I know (it’s Aus. Aus is fucked.), but… Surely it’s my choice, right, unless they can prove I’m “not of sound mind”..? Surely..?!?
More scared of losing my freedoms than the fucking disease, tbh. By a long shot…
You’d think so, wouldn’t you??
Half of what they’ve “told me” is illogical, but I only found out about all these extra “instructions” because I don’t have a GP locally, so the letter which WOULD have gone to the GP went to me instead… 😂
Otherwise I wouldn’t know all of this utter bullshit, lol…
But I guess with the folks you know, they’ve only been told they SHOULD avoid garlic, right..?? The doc can’t really mandate that…
I guess that’s my worry, heh.
Dietary restrictions are usually either "this is going to fuck you up, so don't eat it" (allergies, diabetes, and the like), or "this is going to fuck up your meds, so don't eat it (grapefruit with certain heart meds is notably famous for killing you)".
The doc ain't in your home, they ain't looking over your shoulder, so at least in sane parts of the world, all they can say is the absolute "don't"s. If you're allergic to peanuts and still decide that peanut butter is okay to eat a tablespoonful or two, that's not on the doc, it's on you.