LeBFG, I said people have taken against vegetarianism - not neccersarily you. You seem to have taken against the OP, and, apparently me. But hey ho...
Moving on...
There are thousands of different medicines that doctors and nurses prescribe, its ridiculous to think that they know whether each and every one is vegetarian or not.
True, bit we're talking about amoxicillin here, hardly rare. And most laymen know the capsules contain gelatin. They should (and can) access the information quickly though.
Would you expect someone who works in a shop to know the exact contents of every product?
If it way medicine yes- and at the very least know how to look it up!
Before foods had labels on them to say whether things were suitable for vegetarians would you have expected a shop assistant to go and research every ingrediant for you before you bought it?
Red herring, the OP was asking for clarification - she knew enough to know the capsules probably weren't vegetarian. Also in a shop if you are unhappy with service you go elsewhere. If you have to do this with the NHS it wastes appointments and costs money- you should be able to rely on each appointment being high quality,
I don't think that he should have spent half an hour looking up each ingredient to see if it complied with the OPs moral viewpoint and made every other patient run late , he pointed the OP in the right direction to get the information herself.
Half an hour! One google search told me all I needed to know. Approximately 20seconds, the nurse should have had access to better reference material than me! His signposting was ineficient, if the OP gets advice from a pharmacist she will have to make another HCP appointment afterwards for a new script. This costs money.
Also, have you forgotten the OP was ill and vulnerable during all this?