When I go to see the doctor
It's to find what's wrong with me
You'd expect if they can't fix me
They might least give me a clue
Now it seems that all has changed
You are asked what's wrong with you
And you only get to answer one
They don't have time for two!
(I got my 'me's and 'you's a bit mixed up there. I'm missing Margaret my proof reader. 🙁)
Mr. D. you are sadly so right. It's the sign of these times we live in I'm afraid. I always book a double appointment,as I usually have to write things down or refer to something that I've most likely read on this forum,lol ! Sometimes I leave in a state of despair as I'm certain I knew more than the Locum Doctor who was landed with me!!
I talked about this limitation to my doctor and he said it used to be 7 minutes at one time. I said I didn't remember that and his answer was that I wouldn't because I was never ill then! That's what gets me. I paid into the fund for 41 years and hardly used it. He reminded me that I got two new knees out of it in the year 2000 and they must have been top quality because they are still working with out having had a single problem. My doctor should be selling second cars. 😵
🤣🤣🤣so very true Don.
I’m not glad to hear it but I did think it was just my surgery. Clearly not.
Daft thing is you can’t book a double appointment is you have 2 questions.
How does that work?
Do we need yet another petition?
Would could all gather on and close a London bridge in protest. Not Tower Bridge though, it tips up! 😮
😂😂.. so true Mr D .. xx
That’s very true Don, they think we’ve nothing better to do than visit the doctor. Oh well. Xxxxxxx
My Doctor came up with the same new line...What is wrong with you, I honestly have no time! When I have 2 infections, he can only listen to one.....its to do with the billing system....God? What now have they done?
So true Don they haven't got time for us older generation who have many health problems. One of our doctors she sticks rigidly to the few minutes you have with her and can't wait for you to leave.
So very true Don, at the moment IF I can get to see my doctor she will take the time to answer most of my questions. Sadly in 2020 when the new system comes in we wont even have the choice to say we need to see the doctor, the fully trained receptionist will decide for us x
Not quite as bad as the untrained dragons that they used to have on receptions, but a move in the wrong direction. 🙁
Thats for certain sure when they will probably send you to the chemist, as Hacienda says, the mind boggles x
It was like this year's ago. You had to get past the receptionist. She would say wether or not you would have an appointment.I don't want to have to go through that again.
Hi panda22, it will be worse than that. I have read up about the changes coming in in 2020, we will be lucky to have a doctors surgery, they are to be replaced with hubs. I am hoping the doctors refuse, but as they are to be paid for joining this I doubt there will be much fuss. As Hacienda says the mind boggles x
I heard about ‘hubs’ the other day on the radio and thought, surely it can’t mean that. But it seems like it does 😲 I’m not sure how this can be a good idea.
Seriously not a good idea HH. It is supposed to free the doctors time up and the hubs are going to be dealing with upto 50k people, go figure that, which means they will be out of town, so getting there if you dont have a car will be nigh impossible. We will be herded like cattle, I dread the thought of this new system and can only hope that somebody will see the error in this way of dealing with the crisis that we have with the nhs at the moment. It would be better to put up the NI stamp and employ more doctors and build more hospitals x
So very True Don, even my Consultant has mentioned I go to my GP, not for her to Diagnose, after all she is Respiratory,! Any other ailments I have are all Lung Related with regard to Side affects of the Meds She prescribed, We can't win, If I do go to my GP He hasn't a clue really...Too Many Chiefs, comes to mind, or maybe the other way round. The Mind Boggles. x
At the moment I cannot get to the doctors, well, if I could afford a Taxi and 2 Carers, I might just make it back upstairs when I get back home. If bad problem then I can call an ambulance obviously, but if need advice or possibly a change in presciption, I can have a "telephone consultation" with the GP on duty for it that day, the time on these can be very short, get some advise, then when I breath in to say the next bit, they say goodbye!!
Nice one Don, but true. Have to ring up now and hope they can ring back if not wait five weeks for an appointment but they are available to discuss the changes in the 10 year NHS plan for thr future or new drugs the pharmacy want us try out. Or are we just expecting too much to get an appointment to see our normal GPs instead of a nurse or stand in. I have not even heard of the GP in our surgery who has just taken over the booking lists but apparently he/she is taking on new patients, wonder whose retiring then.
My doctor has gone part time rather than retire, I resisted the temptation of saying "I thought you already were". 😉 We are unlikely to ever see 'Cause of death. Lack of medical attention', any time soon. But it makes you wonder.
I tried to "like" your reply here but I just get a Network Error message 🤔 Anyway I do like your reply because I dear that sadly it's not impossible, even if it's unlikely to be given as a cause of death ☹️
Very true, Don! xx Moy
So true x
On the subject of receptionists deciding medical things it seems now nurses can prescribe without doctors knowledge, not sure if our oldest practice nurse is trained to prescribe i.e nurse/practioner trained but if she is trained she should be more aware of side effects ect of the drugs prescribed and the history of her patient. Another area thats changing before our eyes, as the consultant told me you can get this info on google. Oh and how can someone take over a patient if if theres no info on the digital gadget for them to consult.
The trouble is that not many people understand the language used in the digital world. When your consultant mentioned google he probably meant using google to find the manufacturers side effect notes. Google is just a search engine engine to find other stuff.
The practice nurse has probably be given access to your medical record and I should imagine the software is designed to check side effects don't clash, but who knows?
It's getting harder and hard for patients to check on what exactly is going on as regards their treatment and it shouldn't be necessary if they could trust people to do their job properly, which unfortunately they don't always. 🙁
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