Trust Me

[Hoxo]

Dr Moseley's piece on hypothyroidism tonight was very clear and very good I thought. When put so logically as he did it just highlights the scandal of the poor treatment we've had to put up with.

[dotti]

I saw it and thought it was very good too

Dotti

[bluebug]

I said on the other thread it was better than I expected.

I'm now waiting for him to be attacked by others in the NHS like all the doctors on Embarrassing Bodies have been for telling people to investigate it themselves.

When Embarrassing Bodies started they use to randomly ask the patients GPs why they hadn't referred the patient to a particular specialist. They would then state the GP declined to answer.

[humanbean in reply to bluebug]

I've never seen those early editions of Embarrassing Bodies. I didn't know they used to do that (speak to the GPs). I wonder if they have edited those scenes out for the programs you can see online.

[Jose651 in reply to humanbean]

Neither have I.

J🍀

[bluebug in reply to humanbean]

I think they have edited them out, and some episodes are randomly missing online.

I watched a couple of the first series when they were first broadcasted, then when I went to visit family the teenagers would have the repeats on one of the other Channel 4 chamnels. I would recognise some of the patients stories and think I'm sure they have removed bits.

[humanbean in reply to bluebug]

I noticed last night that some episodes of 24 Hours in A&E are missing online too. I'm mildly curious about why that would be.

[bluebug in reply to humanbean]

In the case of the patients on those programs it could simply be the fact the consent was time limited and after that time they have to re-ask. If they don't get a firm yes then they can't use the clip.

In the case of the medical professionals in the program they may have gotten cr*p from an employer for being on that program. I went to an interview a few years back and one of the interviewers thought it was OK to Google me. He didn't realise I knew what was in the public domain and I knew he had no access to my social media accounts. Anyway 80% of the stuff he dug up wasn't related to me at all. I basically told him he was an idiot partly because he was useless at searching and I already knew what was available, so unsurprisingly didn't get the role.

In the case of asking the GPs for comment the medical defence organisations could argue that leaving that in wasn't fair for a few reasons. In some cases the conditions were rare, in other cases like a fistula that caused a guy to wear his wife's sanity towels they would say the NHS didn't give the GP sufficient funding to deal with it.

[elwins]

If you put trust me I am a doctor in on the Internet. You will find various articles on health matters which have been covered on the television programmes. Quite a article about the thyroid gland and medication.