Do you trust your GP?
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My GP is always pissed but he is brilliant. He is an old timer that knows everything, a no nonsense type. The only problem is that he is getting on a bit & has many days off sick; and his replacement is a young Polish woman that knows Jack.
randy.stand
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I deal with a lot GP's in my job and a lot are very good i think. However there are some which are crap but what annoys me most is patients i go to see moaning about their GP but they never will ever change their GP. Just irritates me.
Pride of Lions
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Let's put it this way..... I have no reason to distrust her.
Juan Mourep
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No.
BBJ
Father Of The Forum
My experience has been reasonably good.
There is, however, a however.
When I was a teenager, I started getting gunge pouring out of my right ear. I went to the doctor and was told I had catarrh. The discharge got worse. One morning, my pillow was covered in blood. I headed to A & E pronto.
To cut to the chase, I ended up having seven operations resulting in a huge mastoid cavity, and I'm about 60% deaf in that ear. The surgeon told me that if it had been left, I could have got meningitis and died.
When I taxed the GP about this, his response was "you had catarrh to begin with."
Yeah, right!
There is, however, a however.
When I was a teenager, I started getting gunge pouring out of my right ear. I went to the doctor and was told I had catarrh. The discharge got worse. One morning, my pillow was covered in blood. I headed to A & E pronto.
To cut to the chase, I ended up having seven operations resulting in a huge mastoid cavity, and I'm about 60% deaf in that ear. The surgeon told me that if it had been left, I could have got meningitis and died.
When I taxed the GP about this, his response was "you had catarrh to begin with."
Yeah, right!
starchild65
Vital Squad Member
2 weeks ago I had to go see the doc about this lump I have near my belly button. I had an umbilical hernia back in 2004 that was operated on pretty smartish. This lump was really causing me some pain and I managed to get a same day appointment. After much prodding and manipulation he said he wanted me to see a doctor who had an ultra sound scanner at another surgery rather than wait weeks for a hospital appointment. He wasn't sure if it was another hernia, an infection (as it was near to where my last operation was), or some kind of ulcer. He gave me a prescription for penicillin and said I should hear from this other doc within 4 days. 2 days later I get the call from this 2nd doc and I'm laid on his couch first thing Monday morning. fears of it being an ulcer were quashed but it did confirm it was another hernia and now I'm awaiting a letter from the hospital to confirm my appointment to go under the blade again. I refer to this upcoming procedure as my zip extension.
thefacehead
Vital Football Hero
I've always said that you know your own body, if you think they aren't taking you seriously enough demand another opinion, keep them under pressure, they get paid well to do a job, so people shouldn't be scared to challenge them if they think they might be wrong.
I always try to see the same guy who's always been pretty good with me, I do trust him, I have never seen my assigned GP, I rather go to my trusted doc.
I always try to see the same guy who's always been pretty good with me, I do trust him, I have never seen my assigned GP, I rather go to my trusted doc.
randy.stand
Vital Champions League
In all honesty i never go see my GP. If i'm ill and really need to see a Doctor i'd probably go to a walk in centre or just see one of the GP's at the health centre where i work if they could squeeze me in for a few minutes. I have Vitamin B12 injections once every 3 months which i used to go see the practice nurse for but now i just get one of the other nurses in my office to give it to me. or a student nurse if they need to get it signed off in their book and haven't done so, I'm trusting like that.
When i was 13, i was really ill for a few months, lost loads of weight, hair became thin, nails crumbling and had diahhrea a lot. Doctor kept saying it was irritable bowel which found out later was crap because children cannot experience irritable bowel. They did some bloods and my bloods were just all over the place. I went on a morning to get them done, by time i got home from school the GP had phoned asking to go straight round there. Got there, and he explained the bloods and said we were possibly looking at a Leaukemia diagnosis and that a bed was waiting for me at Sandwell Hospital. Spent a couple nights in hospital, they were trying to find out what it was. In the end they had an inkling it was a gastro problem so i was sent to the Childrens Hospital where they did a endoscopy/colonoscopy and confirmed my condition as being Crohns.
When i was 13, i was really ill for a few months, lost loads of weight, hair became thin, nails crumbling and had diahhrea a lot. Doctor kept saying it was irritable bowel which found out later was crap because children cannot experience irritable bowel. They did some bloods and my bloods were just all over the place. I went on a morning to get them done, by time i got home from school the GP had phoned asking to go straight round there. Got there, and he explained the bloods and said we were possibly looking at a Leaukemia diagnosis and that a bed was waiting for me at Sandwell Hospital. Spent a couple nights in hospital, they were trying to find out what it was. In the end they had an inkling it was a gastro problem so i was sent to the Childrens Hospital where they did a endoscopy/colonoscopy and confirmed my condition as being Crohns.
