answer:For generalized medical advice I tend to look first on WebMD.com, which has always seemed to have good information of this type, so I’d recommend that as a good source to answer some of your general questions. As to the other specifics of your question, I would have a chat with the doctor when I go there again (if I were you) asking how the receptionist knows specifics of your medical condition (number one) and why that person is dispensing medical advice (number two). Both of those are issues that the doctor should put a stop to. In the fist place it is a violation of the doctors’ confidentiality rules for them to be sharing advice with a non-medical person (a receptionist not bound by any rules of medical ethics or confidentiality), and in the second place a non-medical professional should not be advising patients / clients on medical issues. You’d do well to talk to the nurse in the meantime – and you might mention these issues to her, too, after you have had your own questions about your specific case answered to your satisfaction.