GPs

Do decent ones exist these days? Do they even cure ailments and illnesses any more or just have a quota of drugs to prescribe?

Please discuss and feel free to enlighten me.

[littleoldman2]

Mine are very good, when you finally get to see one.

I dont think there is much difference between Garmin and Tom-Tom.



Ooops---Sorry,my defective eye sight again

Cheer up doll it will get better eventually XXXXX-----THERE ALL BETTER NOW

[dizzyblonde]

Minor ailments aren't their highest priority.
They are too busy with paperwork and red tape. They have five minutes to 'see' you in their surgery. If you call them, to diagnose over the phone, with your own prognosis, they're likely to decide, you aren't going to die.
On the otherhand, when you have something moir serious in your notes whilst on the phone, they want you in within the next hour.

I have one doctor I pretty much flatly refuse to see unless desperate, I'll see a locum over him any day.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I have one doctor I pretty much flatly refuse to see unless desperate, I'll see a locum over him any day.

Same here. The sullen "I bet you're not really ill" receptionists, who get even more annoyed when you refuse to tell them why you want to see a doctor, go through the roof when you ask for a specific doctor. Both my wife and I have been misdiagnosed by more than one doc at our practice and I refuse to see anyone except my specific GP now.

[gruntygiggles]

This Maria is one of those occasions where the more fuss you make and the more annoying and demanding you are, the more you will get.

Get on the phone or go in to your surgery and get angry with them. Be polite, but don't back down until you get an appointment with another GP for a second opinion and that appointment should be within 48 hours. Don't let them fob you off...tune in to your inner battleaxe and front them out.

Good luck and I hope they get you feeling better soon.

xxx

[Jayneflakes]

I always ask to see one specific Doctor for my ailments when I head down to my GPs surgery. My Doctor is an old school scientist type, he understands that I don't care for kind words and sympathy. The surgery also has a newly qualified girl who barely looks old enough to be out of college, but she is all nice and does the whole "There there!" thing which I hate.

I recently had an interview with another Doctor who has said that I am facing being labeled as disabled. He was all sad and sympathetic, which really gets my goat. I don't need sympathy, I need to be out on my bike, I need to be having fun. Attitude goes a long way and some Doctors are miserable whining gits. When I last saw my GP he asked me if it hurt? When I said yes, he laughed! I like that... He is also a biker.

That is the answer, see a GP biker, they know best!

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Same here. The sullen "I bet you're not really ill" receptionists, who get even more annoyed when you refuse to tell them why you want to see a doctor, go through the roof when you ask for a specific doctor. Both my wife and I have been misdiagnosed by more than one doc at our practice and I refuse to see anyone except my specific GP now.

I very rarely see a doctor tbh. I saw more of the insides of my gp surgery whilst I was pregnant, than any other time prior to that. The receptionists before tey moved my practise knew my voice, if calling for an appointment,but now its much bigger so more staff.,with more ignorance.
I'm not one to ring unless the kids are really ill, and therrs always a particular doctor I'm pleased to be seen by when it concerns the kids. He's been on hid way home before now and has taken one look, turned round taken his coat off with the words follow me.

The only time I go to the docs for myself is when it concerns a particular matter ongoing from pregnancy, which needs a little more need than when, for instance I had bad guts and other effects a couple of weeks back. One friend on Fb sais I should go to the docs, in my opinion, I certainly wasn't going to waste their time with a common complaint!

[timwilky]

I went to the docs, receptionist said are you registered here?
Yes?
when did you last come I cannot find you on our system.

25 years ago

Oh, we will have returned your file to central storage as we assume you have moved if we do not see you for two years.

Doc say you must have a problem to come here and treated me seriously from day one. I used to see him in the pub more than the surgery. When he put me on Tramadol he told me to take the with a good shot of scotch.

Main problem is not the GPs, it is the practice manager who is a snotty cow with if if you do not like it you can always go elsewhere attitude when you say things are not good enough, ie last evening appointments is at 6:00pm etc.

what do you expect them to do?? Wave a magic wand and cure you. They prescribe the drugs they see fit. They have a systematic approach to treatment. Surgery or the most strongest medicine is hardly ever the first line option, so they work their way up. This is pushed from the higher powers and the GPs just have to follow.

Also if someone comes to you with a problem and you have 10 minutes to find out the problem, how it affects you, come up with a diagnosis, treatment and managment plan. its not the easiest job.

Also, speak to the "GP principal/owner" if you have concerns. as mentioned practice managers are not the greatest but its in the GP owners interest to keep patients happy. patient satisfaction = more patients= more money!