Yeah...some things will have changed for the better, I'm sure. All those little niggles are dealt with by the local pharmacists now.Pretty much most of the crap people go to GP’s or walk ins with would be answered by a simple google search. Honestly. We’ve been spoiled in this country with our access to services. For some folk every single symptom must be diagnosed. I see people with snapped nails, splinters, sore throats for 3hrs. Kids with rashes that starts 30mins ago after playing in the park. These things should be common sense but the free and easy access to services has made folk lazy when it comes to self care.
Not even the landlord sending you out the door on your arse?I was in a pub near me and saw all the reception staff from the local doctors. All giggling away and one of their phones rang. She answered it pronto. I walked up to her and said you can answer your phone in the pub try answering at the surgery are you fucking deaf to the phone ringing there.
That goes for the fucking lot of you I said.
I got no response.
Shocking. I hope he takes it furtherLad I work with, 61 has been Ill for several months. GP refuses to see him basically and fobbed him off saying his persistent cough was a chest infection probably and prescribed antibiotics. Got no better, finally saw him and again, just prescribed antibiotics telling him not to worry. Weeks later, couldn’t eat or keep anything down, blood in stool they book him a colonoscopy. That was last week. They found a polyp and growth which resulted in a CT scan. Today he got told cancer is everywhere and all they can do now is palliative care.
Could and would it have been a different outcome had he been seen immediately and proper investigations happened? No idea, I’m no doctor but personally I think his care has been an utter fucking scandal.
My cousins daughter who is 31 had back pain during covid 2020. She kept asking for appt, but was never seen, just fobbed off with antibiotics. She then developed a persistent cough again given antibiotics. All this time her back pain was getting worse. After complaining to her gp practice they eventually sent her for a mri scan. Turns out she has breast cancer that has spread to her spine and lungs. Long term prognosis is very bleak. Her youngest child is 5 years old. She know has to come to terms with the fact she will never see her little girl grow up. Absolutely tragic.Lad I work with, 61 has been Ill for several months. GP refuses to see him basically and fobbed him off saying his persistent cough was a chest infection probably and prescribed antibiotics. Got no better, finally saw him and again, just prescribed antibiotics telling him not to worry. Weeks later, couldn’t eat or keep anything down, blood in stool they book him a colonoscopy. That was last week. They found a polyp and growth which resulted in a CT scan. Today he got told cancer is everywhere and all they can do now is palliative care.
Could and would it have been a different outcome had he been seen immediately and proper investigations happened? No idea, I’m no doctor but personally I think his care has been an utter fucking scandal.
Yup, on contract. The trust I worked for had a problem with budgeting. Put simply, the clinical head who made the most noise got the most money! I developed a hierarchy of treatments for them to enable the chief exec to allocate funds according to the needs of the population served. It was successful and adopted by other trusts.Have you worked in the NHS?
I would immediately be suspicious of a GP that prescribed antibiotics for a cough.Lad I work with, 61 has been Ill for several months. GP refuses to see him basically and fobbed him off saying his persistent cough was a chest infection probably and prescribed antibiotics. Got no better, finally saw him and again, just prescribed antibiotics telling him not to worry. Weeks later, couldn’t eat or keep anything down, blood in stool they book him a colonoscopy. That was last week. They found a polyp and growth which resulted in a CT scan. Today he got told cancer is everywhere and all they can do now is palliative care.
Could and would it have been a different outcome had he been seen immediately and proper investigations happened? No idea, I’m no doctor but personally I think his care has been an utter fucking scandal.