Changing Surgeries

Yes it’s a long drawn out process in my surgery even for an appointment ring at 800am but it’s engaged and when you do get through no appointments left try tomorrow.
I am weeks trying to arrange a blood test.
Eventually I got a telephone appointment I swear they don’t even read the notes on screen. I had a serious brain injury and it should at least merit attention but they have all the new building’s equipment but sit looking at a computer screen or chatting.

I need to make my own appointment at the local hospital pick up the form from reception then attend. Then the whole rigmarole again for results.
Will we ever get back the health service we all pay into.
 
NHS GP system has been broken for years and covid saw it off.

A and E try to take up the slack...poor bastards

Go private (which is what they want) they welcome you with open arms.
 
I can't really complain about my Dr's surgery because it has always been shit and covid hasn't affected it at all. That being said I am a realist and understand that in a chain of people you see it only takes one of those people to not care a jot for everything to go tits up.

Your best bet is not be compliant and do not on any circumstance think your doctor is your best friend, it's more than likely they are not and don't care for any closeness, after all when they fuck up they don't want to feel the guilt of actually knowing someone they have fucked up with.

In the medical profession I place my trust in Ambulance-people and people who do the thankless tasks.
 
If a specialist at a hospital writes a letter to you and your doctor, in which he states your medication should be changed to xx, you would think the fucker would at least read the letter and change your meds.
Ha ha, I laughed as well when I typed that.
You could always complain, yes I know, the joke thread is over there >>>>>
At least Harold Shipman visited you.
 
The whole GP surgery model is a complete shitshow at the moment, IF you can get through you then have to face down the professional mother-in-laws on reception to arrange for the doctor to ring you in about 7 days time. IF you survive that long, you then have to be content with the modern day equivalent of take two aspirin and call me back in the morning, or in this case go through the whole process again.

The second encounter with the guardian of the appointment diary can be brutal, but if you stand your ground and hold up the telephone process for the other poor fuckers waiting at number 97 and beyond in the queue, then you may achieve the holy grail of a face to face appointment.

This of course will not be with the same doctor who previously prescribed the two aspirin

This time the GP will refer you to the local hospital, in my case with a form for an xray, with a phone number to book the appointment. As he hands you the form, he will give you a conspiratorial wink and tell you it might be difficult to get through, and you may just have to turn up and if they aren't busy they might do you there and then. This, despite the big bold letters on the form telling you without an appointment, and without arriving bearing this form, you will not be seen.

In fairness, the telephone was answered at the third ring and appointment made for about 3 weeks in the future.

7 days later and its time to challenge the guardian of the seventh ring again. "Yes your xray is here but the Doctor hasn't looked at it yet, call back in 2 or 3 days"

So on the basis anything nasty would have been flagged as urgent by the radiologist, I left it 4 days before engaging with the dragon once more, to be told "Yes your xray is here but the Doctor hasn't looked at it yet, call back in 2 or 3 days"

I "explained" the situation and was promised a call back that afternoon, which I did get, but from a third different doctor.

The uphot being a second xray as the first "could not rule out a shadow....." blah blah blah

Went through the booking process once more, earliest appointment 3 weeks, that appointment was Monday this week, so next Monday I must once more make the dreaded phone call..... If I can be arsed I'll continue this then.

Incidentally, all this was for chest pain......Stoopid old me thought that was something to be taken seriously
 
flook said:
Incidentally, all this was for chest pain......Stoopid old me thought that was something to be taken seriously
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Quite. When I went through to 111 with my heart attack, they asked me dozens of questions before sending the ambulance.

As for chest pains, I mentioned it to a doctor four years ago, along with periodic exhaustion, and she just told me to take some exercise.

Even before that, the Mental Health people once sent me back to the Doctor because the wise old eastern European bird heard an oddity in my heart beat when she listened on a stethoscope during a manic phase.

Doctor just shrugged and said it was nothing. Aha! Same doctor as today I think. Same one I spoke to last time, when reporting repeated bouts of illness seemingly always culminating in tachycardia, who basically told me meh, could be a (or 'the') virus or something, go away and get better (seriously, did absolutely fuck all).

Now I'm diagnosed with a mental health condition, the docs hospitalised me once after an issue with my mum, she's always been a huge part of my life, that manic phase was after my dad died... that time I spoke to this guy 18 months ago, I also told him my mum had died and he didn't say anything at all.

Today did seem strange, he took so long to do fuck all, and I had the inclination to never speak to him again about a dozen times. Made no effort at all to contact me or confirm anything after I hung up. After the text message thing - which is exactly what I was initially complaining about. I wonder if he wasn't reading the whole thing back.

I was thinking Cholestorol levels were the cause before today but he let slip that it was high at the hospital but not disastrous, and my "good" cholestorol was also high. So I'm back to stuff like... long COVID & Vaccine issues. Something that went wrong about 5 years ago that they never listened to. And also broken heart syndrome. Because I thought i overheard the doctor in hospital mention it to her Consultant, and my troponin was in that sort of region, high, but not outrageous.

I do get a bit conspiratorial but I'm inclined to apply some pressure here to find out what they say, I would like to think that there might be a question as to why he failed to follow up on those two key points in that presentation. And it is true, he seemingly did not get the meds right, left two off, and did not confirm the consultant's direction, just said it would be normal practise for me to continue taking that one.

But really I have to focus on something more positive like getting my needs for now and the future sorted out.

This is why Boris is on telly. Not because of me. But I can't help thinking it's because the whole thing is starting to fall apart, and he's relying on useful opportunities to appear on telly and tell his side of the story, using the whole thing as a distraction.
 
Summerbuzz said:
Quite. When I went through to 111 with my heart attack, they asked me dozens of questions before sending the ambulance.

As for chest pains, I mentioned it to a doctor four years ago, along with periodic exhaustion, and she just told me to take some exercise.

Even before that, the Mental Health people once sent me back to the Doctor because the wise old eastern European bird heard an oddity in my heart beat when she listened on a stethoscope during a manic phase.

Doctor just shrugged and said it was nothing. Aha! Same doctor as today I think. Same one I spoke to last time, when reporting repeated bouts of illness seemingly always culminating in tachycardia, who basically told me meh, could be a (or 'the') virus or something, go away and get better (seriously, did absolutely fuck all).

Now I'm diagnosed with a mental health condition, the docs hospitalised me once after an issue with my mum, she's always been a huge part of my life, that manic phase was after my dad died... that time I spoke to this guy 18 months ago, I also told him my mum had died and he didn't say anything at all.

Today did seem strange, he took so long to do fuck all, and I had the inclination to never speak to him again about a dozen times. Made no effort at all to contact me or confirm anything after I hung up. After the text message thing - which is exactly what I was initially complaining about. I wonder if he wasn't reading the whole thing back.

I was thinking Cholestorol levels were the cause before today but he let slip that it was high at the hospital but not disastrous, and my "good" cholestorol was also high. So I'm back to stuff like... long COVID & Vaccine issues. Something that went wrong about 5 years ago that they never listened to. And also broken heart syndrome. Because I thought i overheard the doctor in hospital mention it to her Consultant, and my troponin was in that sort of region, high, but not outrageous.

I do get a bit conspiratorial but I'm inclined to apply some pressure here to find out what they say, I would like to think that there might be a question as to why he failed to follow up on those two key points in that presentation. And it is true, he seemingly did not get the meds right, left two off, and did not confirm the consultant's direction, just said it would be normal practise for me to continue taking that one.

But really I have to focus on something more positive like getting my needs for now and the future sorted out.

This is why Boris is on telly. Not because of me. But I can't help thinking it's because the whole thing is starting to fall apart, and he's relying on useful opportunities to appear on telly and tell his side of the story, using the whole thing as a distraction.
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@Summerbuzz Most on here aremoaning about physical problems. Your post indicate a more worrying mental health problem. I don't have an answer but there are various charities that you can phone. They will answer and they will listen. If they can help they will do. They cannot produce a decent gp, I don't think anyone can but try them. Dont suffer alone.
 
Blue Mist said:
@Summerbuzz Most on here aremoaning about physical problems. Your post indicate a more worrying mental health problem. I don't have an answer but there are various charities that you can phone. They will answer and they will listen. If they can help they will do. They cannot produce a decent gp, I don't think anyone can but try them. Dont suffer alone.
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Yeah.... I mean. You're right in one important way. I do appreciate it.

But I'm talking about an NSTEMI and angioplasty, and other 'very' phsyical stuff that got pushed back, that hasn't gone away.
 
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