Are you here in the United States, then, Robert, or in Central Africa as your flag says? Since you use the term "paracetamol," I'm guessing you're overseas from me.

Hmm, having a doctor who twice forgot something as simple as a penicillin allergy--that's one they normally note down real big in your chart--and then learning he is a Tamil Tiger would likely drive me to another doctor. Does he speak with a heavy Sri Lankan accent? He was wise not to prescribe aspirin for that shin bump. I won't fault him on that particular advice. That's normally how bumps like that are treated: Panadol, ice, rest/elevation of limb, and sometimes compression.