ANOTHER BLIND DOCTOR, ANOTHER DEAD PATIENT …. daily death and life
on 10/19/2009 at 10:43 AM
Yup. The NHS is badly overstretched. I know this from both sides as my partner recently retired as a GP on the grounds of ill health. All her GP friends are only just hanging on, being overburdened with pointless bureaucracy and beancounting.
The NHS has been scouring the world to put bums on seats, and this “doctor” is one such bum.
I hear that the Irish health service is in the same bind.
Speaking of bums on seats let us not forget this “German” GP who killed a patient...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6253798/Doctor-who-killed-pensioner-had-no-GP-experience-says-son.html
‘I don’t understand how you can exhibit these symptoms for so long and they not be picked up until it’s too late.’
I can answer that one easily - as you see the US Army does that too - usually it is local Drs (overseas) but indeed, even in KY we had an Indian (the country not the misnamed minority in America) in the X-Ray Dept.which is complicated by just too many damn Drs in the mix.
1993 - I had many symptoms, the Nurse Practitioner in the Women’s Clinic thought I was going through menopause (not yet honey) - so over to OB/GYN (I mention this tedious - you shall see there are many more tracks - as it is important to those who have no clue about government run healthcare - as to what it is really like) - to alas get more (the same repeated) blood tests. This started in Sept. at a yearly checkup - now it is Dec - the symptoms are cascading and increasing with such frequency I can no longer function much at all, am a real b*tch to live with and getting worse daily - as it set off a sudden and severe manic-depressive cycle. So finally (and I say finally, as way back in Sept. when mis-diagnosed with menopause, I’d gone to the library and guess what, first paragraph in bold - test for thyroid as the symptoms are the same)! Alas no such luck with Army Docs (and yes I’m getting to the foreigner) - so finally in Jan. After the thyroid (TSH) tests came back at almost 0 - I get back to the regular clinic with a special pass to Internal Medicine. She was nice - even showed me all the numbers on the screen and said - You will take this Synthyroid but first we must do an scan of the thyroid to insure you don’t have cancer. And Mr. Indian Doctor (at the X-ray Dept) who found the thyroid to be A-OK - basically told me to my face - Get a Life. Lucky for me I’d already been diagnosed and had a treatment plan in place or it would have been worse than it was. I went on the medication and three (oops make that 5 doctors later - forgot the Endocrinologist and Psychiatrist who finally had to get involved when I was cycling within the same sentence). 1993 to 1997 - of my life ruined and almost (I had a severe reaction to one of the pysch drugs and almost committed suicide) ended my life - simply because of 1) too many doctors in the mix and 2) apparently a belief among male doctors that any woman over 35 is depressed and worried about getting old and fat.Now can’t all of you on private insurance just want to jump right into a mess like that - every time you get sick? Because that is just one of the instances I can point to that made a simple situation - worse.
10/19/2009 at 02:58 PM
10/20/2009 at 07:25 AM
