Tennis elbow from running?

  So I guess I have my first real injury (aside from the horrid fall on the track that still has left a scar on my knee!) from running.
  I finally made an appointment to see a doctor about the pain in my elbow.  I noticed I keep hitting my right elbow on the poles of our upstairs track when I run because I usually run on the inside of everyone else.  To add more injury to it, I tend to bounce it off my door frames in my apartment at least once a day.
  I explained all of this to the doctor who informed me I have "tennis elbow."
  I then apparently offended him because his solution was to take some advil or tylenol.  I explained that I don't self medicate - I don't take any type of pills like that.  I asked if there was another way I could take care of the pain (esp. since I've been living with the constant pain for over a month) outside of aspirin - I didn't want to just mask the pain but actually fix the injury so it heals.  He just looked at me like I was telling him how to do his job and said not really.  He gave me an extra strength prescription for Advil or something that I have to take to Target (which I will... only  because I have a coupon to get a $10 gift card for a new prescrip!) and take that twice a day.  He also, against his wishes, gave me some example stretches I should be doing to help the healing.
  Everything else he suggested consisted of things I was already doing - ice it, wrap it, etc.  That's obviously not really working.  He also gave me some information they had to read about what exactly is going on with my elbow.  I may get a second opinion - last time I saw this doctor he told me my hearing loss was from too much wax while it was really from a collapsed inner ear canal.
  As for running, I did not do my race this past weekend.  I was on duty and received a call as I was planning to leave so it killed those plans.  And this weekend my job is requiring me to drive to AR and camp out so I have to skip the other race I wanted to do.  I believe there may be one on the 20th which isn't ideal since I'll be traveling 12+ hours the following day to get back to PA but I may just do it so I have that under my belt and know what to expect/can set a new goal for the Jingle Bell we are doing on the 11th of December.  Pretty excited for that race - I want Jess to see how far she has come! : )