PMRGCAuk is delighted to announce that Dr Martin Scurr will be joining us for afternoon tea at the University Women's Club in Mayfair on:
Saturday 23 November at 2.30pm to 5pm.
Dr Martin Scurr is medical adviser to TVs Doc Martin & will be talking about his experiences with advising on the filming, scripts and other things around the series as well as answering any questions you may have.
Tickets are £40 and all proceeds go towards PMRGCAuk.
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I had a pleasant surprise when trying to explain my GCA to a retired actress friend of mine. It emerged that she still took on roleplaying work at a medical teaching institution and one of her roles was as a GCA sufferer.
Can someone ask him how much he knew about PMR/GCA before it was featured? TAB done in the kitchen (and I don't care that Doc Martin was a former vascular surgeon!) and she was fine after a couple of doses of pred!!!
I think we discussed this at the time it was aired - and decided it had to done & dusted in one episode. Unrealistic, but at least it highlighted the condition.
Sorry DL but this time, I cannot agree with your post............fairly rare as well.
In my book, either do it right or not at all.....................
Some of us had to pick up the pieces.
I would have liked him to come to the meeting following on after that programme was aired.
I had not seen it. I came home after that meeting tired and worried.
I then looked at his profile and oh I wished I had seen the programme myself and then looked him up before the meeting.
Guess what............
Dr Martin Scurr
MRCS MB BS FRCGP FRCP
Speciality: General Practice
Main Interests: Medical Ethics, Diagnostic medicine
Member is Retired
People forget it is 'play acting' and that chunks are just skipped over, the bit I could never forgive, was two doses and cured. There was and still no damn cause or cure.
Not saying it was done correctly either (and as you know I have a vested interest as well as you) - but as I said in original post linked below it did highlight the disease - and it was/is a drama not a documentary.
Like any medical drama on TV the storyline invariably only lasts one episode and I think maybe most viewers realise that and it doesn’t necessarily reflect real life-
I think there was a subsequent episode where Ruth is behaving irrationally and Doc Martin rescues her. Can't remember details, but wasn't she leaving town? I believe in the show this was in some way connected to her diagnosis. Or was it all part of the same episode?
This might appear twice... maybe I hit cancel the first time instead of reply...
In a much earlier season a Ruth was diagnosed by Martin with Sjögren’s syndrome.
In a very recent season her gas cooker/ oven (?) was leaking and she was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. ( it was Sussex out after several visors to her home developed headaches/ similar symptoms.)
It was a great relief to everyone, as it was originally thought it was Alzheimer’s .
I only discovered last week they'd been showing new episodes. Reruns had gone on so long I assumed the series was over. I quite liked the two new episodes I've seen. Doc Martin is showing glimmerings of humanity and Louisa seems a lot more feisty.
Interesting. I did not do well in my 40s, very depressed. Had been a stay at home mother for too long. But I was okay when I got my job at the library. Retirement and PMR ended twenty reasonably happy years. I just coast along nowadays.
You are helping so much on here. I’m glad your mind is as sharp as a tack, even if your body isn’t always getting the memo.
I’m in rather desperate need of you ladies.
( I’m failing portions of my neuro cog exams...the short term memory areas. Cerebral Antiphospholipid syndrome)
I’m still working, but thankfully can somewhat manage to set my own hours but not always.
I’m 50. Still have a teen at home - last year of school before uni begins.
My doctors don’t know about when to take the oral tablets- the early morning dosing definitely stops my migraines. It’s also helping with the hallucinations and seizures.
I’m doing better.
Enjoy your new great grandchild! Enjoy coasting and helping others. It’s a true gift.
I had never heard of this disorder before. You do have a lot on your plate. It must be quite a balancing act taking care of different serious things and trying to make sure medications for each don't interact. Are you best friends with your pharmacist by now?
Good description...I coast along, then freewheel a bit, then grind to a halt, at the moment I`m parked up in the garage....waiting for the battery to recharge!....
Kelly I was just being a bit flippant but truth is that none of these guys has the answer and I truly hope that any pain you have now goes quickly believe me as I know how it feels.
Kelly I was just being a bit flippant but truth is that none of these guys has the answer and I truly hope that any pain you have now goes quickly believe me as I know how it feels.
A Thank you. It’s a tough racket for all of us. I’m just very happy have the opportunity to learn about steroids from such a well educated group of ladies/ members.
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