GP's: Behind closed doors

[JellyJac]

Just wondering whether anyone saw the poor girl with underactive thyroid on last nights documentary.

[Muffy]

Yes I did and they didn't seem to associate the headaches with hypothyroidism.

[wightmouse]

Hi Jacuikent

Yes I did and screamed at the telly! The young girl had previous borderline thyroid results?, depression, had low folate and B12. Also complained of migraines, extreme tiredness. The GP which we later saw was in training did not pick up on it at all even when the senior GP reviewed her consultation with the girl all he said was she could of spent more time discussing the migraines!!

It makes me angry! I wish I knew the girl and could guide her to this site.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that maybe in a later program she gets the right treatment.

[JellyJac in reply to wightmouse]

Ah me too! She was met with the usual blank faces that we all see when we go to the GP surgery.

[annie-7 in reply to wightmouse]

Hi wightmouse, I was also screaming at the telly! I really hope she gets the correct treatment, I heard the GP prescribe antidepressants, Sertraline, I believe. (mentioned when the senior GP was reviewing the consultation). Two of the many side-effects mentioned are fatigue and migraine!

[sinine in reply to wightmouse]

If you replay the episode you can catch her name on the display and find her on FB

[wightmouse in reply to sinine]

Afraid I don't do facebook!

[JellyJac]

Even the GP looked totally ashamed of herself whilst having the review.

[shaws Administrator]

What programme and what channel?

[humanbean in reply to shaws]

Channel 5, 8pm, Wednesdays.

It is available online :

channel5.com/shows/gps-behi...

[shaws Administrator in reply to humanbean]

Thanks.

[Hidden]

this program just shows what doctors are like.the way they look at and talk to their patients in a way that they don't care.ignore symptoms and make assumptions rather than fully investigate .I wonder if the doctors view it back and see themselves for what they are like

[Ctb567]

I can relate too, I used to get those cuts in the corner of my lips from a b12 deficiency but they refused to treat mine for a year. Hope we'll see her again on another episode with her results, they sometimes do that

[Helenback]

No I missed that what channel was it on? Could we watch on iplayer?

[humanbean in reply to Helenback]

See my response above to shaws.

[JellyJac]

I think it was on at 8pm last night on Channel 5. It is on iplayer.

[JellyJac]

I was also astonished that even though she had low B12 and clearly had symptoms in her mouth, she wasn't offered any support or advice as to what to do about it.

[shaws Administrator]

The doctor has taken a range of blood tests. I wonder if she's also done a thyroid hormone one too as the girl said last time she was 'borderline' hypo. It would be interesting to know. Let's hope that the tests for ferritin/folate also include a thyroid one too. The girl did give a clue with fatigue etc. but the GPs probably think most teenagers are 'fatigued'.

[JellyJac]

I wonder how "borderline" she was, so what her TSH was but as we always say treat by the symptoms not the lab results..

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

One aspect of the hypothyroid girl was that she had been tested for vitamin D, folate, vitamin B12, ...

Has someone been reading HU TUK? Whether her or the doctor she saw last time who requested those tests.

[Framboise]

Hmm, I've just watched it, thank you Humanbean for the link. So many things about it were wrong – the man with the warts who then put his hand on his face and round his mouth, and probably also touched the door handle when he left – was the handle wiped clean? Whooping cough is contagious and yet the boy had walked in and presumably walked back out among the other patients. I didn’t see any of those doctors wash their hands before sitting back at their desks and they allowed children to lean on their desks. The young boy was given medicine for constipation and his older brother was given cream for eczema instead of checking for something like milk allergy, which is very common in India and Asia (I’m not sure whereabouts their parents were from but I think that area). A woman and the poor hypothyroid girl both had Vitamin D deficiency but neither seemed to be given a prescription for any, or for any of the girl’s other deficiencies.

It was good to know the man succeeded in climbing Mt Toubkal though, I drove up it once and couldn’t possibly have ever climbed it