Another Daily Mail article.....

[kernow43]

Have Bob and Ian been carrying the message of Aspirin verses Warfarin to the national press??? See " twelve mistakes even good GP's make " in Daily Mail this morning.

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All the time and not just the Press, GPs I meet cardiologists and anybody who will listen.

BobD

[tk11]

I saw that too kernow43...seems finally the message is seeping through to GPs

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I'm going to take the cutting to my doctor on Friday. I'll let you know what he says... That whole practice seems to believe in aspirin!

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“Warfarin reduces the risk of stroke in AF patients by 64 per cent; aspirin reduces it by 0 per cent! But the bleeding risk is the same. It remains ridiculous that GPs - and even some hospital doctors - don't know this.”

I do feel sorry for GP's trying to keep up with everything, they clearly can't. Seems to me that bigger practices at least should have GP's that concentrate to a certain degree in a more limited number of problems instead of trying to knowledgable about everything. Why try and do the impossible? Or maybe still have general GP's but each having a little more knowledge and training in certain area?

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Doctors are humans and have the same foibles as us to change. I knew a surgical instrument Rep who said to get a surgeon to change equipment was a nightmare even when proven to be quicker and or safer! Rather than the sterile wood working kit they were trained on and use.

It took a locum to diagnose and treat my asthma and A&E to diagnose my AF and start treatment (my doctor dismissed it was a problem)

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Just to add something, when I was first diagnosed with severe/continuous AF, I was in a coronary ward for 8 days till they got the right drugs. I listened to 3 or 4 heart doctors (don't know their actual job title) discussing whether I should go on Warfarin or Aspirin at the end of my bed. They said that Warfarin was expensive (presume thinking about all the constant tests) and I was put on Aspirin and stayed on it until last year when I needed another ablation. I am not saying it was a purely financial decision, but it certainly played a part. This was admittedly 10 years ago.