Originally Posted by
ralfp
That second part is important. Don't trust a GP (or any other MD) without experience in these matters to prescribe appropriate malaria prophylaxis (or other travel-related meds). I've been given incorrect drugs even after visiting a doc specifically for a trip. I had to correct the MD and tell her that her source of info was incorrect.
I pay for a subscription medical information service that I can check online or loaded on my smartphone. Even having studied travel medicine, it changes too quickly to memorize, and new alerts arise in different areas almost daily. I rarely advise or prescribe for an individual patient without checking these resources first - or preferably with the patient, in the exam room, on my laptop.
Actually, that's good advice for many other areas of medicine too - not just travel medicine...