1st consultation

[Pig4u]

I was surprised when I made my initial consultation with my Endo that he did not give me any sort of physical examination .Not even taking my pulse Has anyone experienced this and should it happen? With the 2 other Endos I have seen over the last 8yrs I have had a quite thorough examination

[earthwitch]

I live in a remote area and travelled a whole day to get to a consultant, who proceeded to tell me what he had already decided (from looking at my file) before asking me anything. When he did do a very cursory exam (it was a neurologist) he got quite a surprise to find it wasn't normal, but that still didn't change the assessment he had made of me already, and I was out of the door within ten minutes. So no, I don't think your experience is unusual. Its not good, but seems not to be unusual in the NHS either.

[Sheryl4659]

My daughter went to see the Gastro dept in a view to having an endoscopy for severe stomach pain, he looked at her and said it wasn't a bowel problem, she told him it was her stomach, he asked what she was taking for it, she told him cocodamol and also dihydrocodeine at night, he gave her a quick examination and told her that she was overweight and her ribs were pressing on her stomach and that the tablets were not necessary as it was her body that was just craving them, he basically told her she was an overweight drug addict, she is probably about a stone over her ideal weight, not over excessive in my opinion, because of not getting any help with a diagnosis she has had to give up her nursing degree at uni even the sister on the last ward she worked on said she was too ill to work, I really don't know what the answer is.