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    Why are doctors so rubbish?

    I have pneumonia.

    Was misdiagnosed, last time I went in I was seen by the nurse - this was decided by a receptionist, now I am very ill and the flipwit doctor I see tells me that it wasn't the nurse's fault.

    I also complained to him about the other doctor I had seen in the same practice who didn't know the difference between EMDR and NLP, he responded by saying she was 'very good' and 'a friend of his'. Well, phooey, she might be a great friend but she is a rubbish doctor - like him.

    In some countries you can choose your doctor, in the way you choose an accountant or solicitor. A friend can recommend a doctor and it isn't restricted by where you live, and here's the key, the doctor doesn't get their 100k automatically, it depends on how many patients they see. Imagine; doctors who don't suck of the tit of the state.

    The NHS is dead and rotting, when is it going to change? Probably not in my lifetime.

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    Originally posted by Lucy View Post
    I have pneumonia. Was misdiagnosed, last time I went in I was seen by the nurse - this was decided by a receptionist, now I am very ill and the flipwit doctor I see tells me that it wasn't the nurse's fault.
    I too got fed up by being diagnosed by a receptionist, so when they give me their pish, I always say "the doctor said after the last time that I need to insist on a same day appointment/repeat prescription etc. so can you check with the doctor before refusing me?" Most of them are quite happy to do the cat-herding on their own authority, but not many will refuse what you are claiming are the direct orders of the quack himself. Even if they do go check with the doctor, he won't remember/care. They do this cat-herding thing, with the deranged idea that only the truly sick will persevere and the malingerers will give up. Of course, when you're really ill, the last thing yuow ant to do is argue with some jumped-up typist over the phone....
    Cooking doesn't get tougher than this.

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      #3
      Get well soon
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #4
        Thanks Rup!

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          #5
          Sorry to hear that.

          I am a strong believer in private medical insurance. Much better diagnosis and faster treatment time. Days rather than weeks/months.

          Surely your millionaire bf can pay for you to private jet to a Swiss specialist in the Alps?

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            #6
            Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
            Sorry to hear that.

            I am a strong believer in private medical insurance. Much better diagnosis and faster treatment time. Days rather than weeks/months.

            Surely your millionaire bf can pay for you to private jet to a Swiss specialist in the Alps?
            I do have private health insurance, my experience in this country is that the doctors who can't survive in the NHS are worse than those who do.

            I have the medical insurance so I don't end up in one of those MRSA filled deathpits they call NHS hospitals.

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              #7
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              I am a strong believer in private medical insurance.
              You still have to see your GP first.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Lucy View Post
                I have pneumonia.

                Was misdiagnosed, last time I went in I was seen by the nurse - this was decided by a receptionist, now I am very ill and the flipwit doctor I see tells me that it wasn't the nurse's fault.

                I also complained to him about the other doctor I had seen in the same practice who didn't know the difference between EMDR and NLP, he responded by saying she was 'very good' and 'a friend of his'. Well, phooey, she might be a great friend but she is a rubbish doctor - like him.

                In some countries you can choose your doctor, in the way you choose an accountant or solicitor. A friend can recommend a doctor and it isn't restricted by where you live, and here's the key, the doctor doesn't get their 100k automatically, it depends on how many patients they see. Imagine; doctors who don't suck of the tit of the state.

                The NHS is dead and rotting, when is it going to change? Probably not in my lifetime.
                Poor Lucy

                pneumonia is usually secondary - is that the case here?

                can you switch your GP?

                Get well soon.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
                  Get well soon
                  Yes, best of luck Lucy.

                  Sorry if this sounds a bit callous, but why is pneumonia a problem in this day and age, or TB for that matter (apart from the resistant strains foreigners bring in to the country)?

                  All you need is a course of antibiotics and it'll clear up in a jiffy, surely?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Marina View Post
                    Yes, best of luck Lucy.

                    Sorry if this sounds a bit callous, but why is pneumonia a problem in this day and age, or TB for that matter (apart from the resistant strains foreigners bring in to the country)?

                    All you need is a course of antibiotics and it'll clear up in a jiffy, surely?
                    pneumonia secondary mostly. it killed beadle and put my mother in intensive care for 2 weeks earlier this year.

                    It is possibly serious for Lucy and I really wish her a speedy recovery - she has not given her age but is presumably young so will recover relatively quickly.

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