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Completely FREE Flu Vaccination in Lalor, VIC, for Anyone with a Medicare Card (No HCC Required)

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Completely FREE Flu Vaccination in Lalor, VIC, for Anyone with a Medicare Card (No HCC Required)
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LGnarlyKnuckles on 09/05/2014 - 23:53 lalorfamilypractice.com.au (199 clicks)
Last edited 10/05/2014 - 00:15

The medical practice at 290 Station Street, Lalor, Victoria is currently administering the influenza/ flu vaccine to anyone with a Medicare-card for free, and you do not even need to make an appointment. My wife and I 'dropped in' today after seeing their sign out the front, and were both promptly vaccinated. Neither of us has a 'health-care-card'/ this is not required; they are vaccinating anyone with a Medicare-card, completely free. I'm not sure why, because the vaccine is not on the 'PBS' (public benefits scheme), and it evidently sells for about $25 in chemists. These AWESOME CHAMPIONS of public-health just seem to be dishing it out for free, for reasons unknown (maybe they're part of an investigative pilot-scheme or something?).
Re their service/ professionalism, I could not fault it at all, in any way. The place is very clean, we waited less than 15 minutes from arriving (unannounced/ no appointment) to being vaccinated, the doc or nurse that immunised us had an excellent technique (I hardly felt a thing, and neither did my wife), the receptionist was very polite, friendly and efficient, and they diligently informed us of the requirement to stick around for 20 minutes or so after the vaccination, on the very outside chance that there might be an adverse reaction of any kind. I advise ANYONE that has not yet had a flu shot this year to go here to get one; extremely professional service, on all fronts, for free; what more could anyone ask for?

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  • [Deactivated] on 09/05/2014 - 23:56
    -1

    Like, ew! may want to add the location into the title. Ew!

  • MrZ on 10/05/2014 - 00:01
    -7

    I would suggest going for the oral (correction: nasal spray) as the IM injection hurts like hell. :(

  • jv on 10/05/2014 - 00:02
    +8

    The medical practice at 290 Station Street, Lalor, Victoria is currently administering the influenza/ flu vaccine

    Be careful you don't accidentally go to the vet a 292 Station Street, they are currently administering free microchip injections…

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 10/05/2014 - 00:03
    +1

    MrZ, there is no such thing as an oral influenza vaccine.

    • jv on 10/05/2014 - 00:04

      Did you ask they nurse if she can give you an Oral ?

    • MrZ on 10/05/2014 - 00:06
      -5

      There is a nasal spray, which is close enough. Geez.

    • shmahoo on 10/05/2014 - 10:24
      -1

      that's OK - the person that administered it wasn't a real doctor!

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 10/05/2014 - 00:11
    +3

    It is not 'close enough', MrZ, it is completely different. One is processed via the digestive tract, the other via the respiratory system. Surely you don't mean to suggest that those two systems are 'close enough' to be classified as the same thing?

    • jv on 10/05/2014 - 00:13
      +2

      One is processed via the digestive tract, the other via the respiratory system.

      Ventolin is oral yet is not processed via the digestive tract…

  • jv on 10/05/2014 - 00:11

    I'm not sure why, because the vaccine is not on the 'PBS' (public benefits scheme),

    It's free for quite a number of people…

    http://www.health.vic.gov.au/immunisation/seasonal-influenza…

    Maybe the doctor there has found a "loophole"?

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 10/05/2014 - 00:12

    My wife was there jv, so I thought better of it.

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 10/05/2014 - 00:27
    +1

    True enough jv, but Ventolin is a drug, not a vaccine, and there-be the important difference that seems to have escaped MrZ. All 'orally administered vaccines' are, by definition, ingested via the mouth (i.e., swallowed/ eaten). Intranasal vaccines are classified as 'mucosal' vaccines (as are oral vaccines), but intranasal vaccines are ABSOLUTELY NEVER classified as 'oral' vaccines. The distinction exists so that doctors/ immunologist/ vaccinologists/ nurses have a clear distinction between the part of the body that processes the vaccine; oral vaccines = STRICTLY those that are ingested via the mouth, and processed in the gut; this does NOT include vaccines that are administered into the respiratory tract, via the nose.

  • shmahoo on 10/05/2014 - 07:27
    +1

    This deal is nothing to sneeze at

    • Steptoe on 10/05/2014 - 08:37
      +2

      No, 'snot that great is it.

      • seanbaussie on 10/05/2014 - 08:52
        +5

        I just flu right past it. Sick of deals that don't inject me with enthusiasm; they're sometimes even doctored to make them look great but I nurse a grudge of ill feeling against their crook posters.
        ;-)

  • figarow on 10/05/2014 - 09:32
    -8

    If you value your health don't get a flu shot

    • ticket65 on 10/05/2014 - 10:20
      +2

      Tell that to the hundreds of people that die each year from the flu…..

    • shmahoo on 10/05/2014 - 10:25
      +2

      I'm negging figarow's comment just coz it adds to the crappy misinformation on this topic that is not making the world a better place. SO you're saying the flu shot is linked to autism, cancer, reproductive problems, etc?

    • OzzyBrak on 10/05/2014 - 10:37
      +1

      it's all part of the new world order mind control scheme funded by the illuminati

  • Murdrum on 10/05/2014 - 12:50

    My last appointment at my GP was bulk billed $70 to medicare. If that's normal, that leaves $45 for a 2 minute flu injection.

    • dp1 on 11/05/2014 - 15:38
      +1

      A consult over 20 mins (minimum) is bulk billed $70.30 to Medicare. A flu shot consult at less than 5 minutes should only be an item '3' on the Medicare Benefits Schedule which is $16-something, I don't know how it is worth their while as they pay about $9 wholesale for each flu shot.

      • Murdrum on 11/05/2014 - 18:08

        Ah, there goes that idea.

  • PVA on 10/05/2014 - 18:56

    Bargain. I got my flu shot free through work. My wife paid $13.50 at the local chemist for hers.

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