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GPs seem to be going totally insane. These two posts are proof that we are actually in danger. Absolute proof that they don’t know what they are doing. Totally horrendous and shocking. If they don’t know what to do when results are glaringly obvious, what chance do we have when we are half way to being correctly medicated?
The lab supervisors should have alerted both these GPs as very urgent cases.
It sometimes appears that lab supervisors are only there to ensure that costs of testing are reduced - by refusing as many as they can. And implementing approaches like reflex testing that do the refusal automatically.
and another one let down by the system, despite almighty blood tests
I've been a member of the forum for a few years now. I took a break from it for several months this year and since I came back I've been profoundly disturbed by the sheer numbers of new cases arriving every day where ill health has been neglected by medical practitioners without any kind of rational explanation. As you point out, we seem to be seeing more serious cases too. It defies belief, except that it's happening.
Marigold22,
The 8 year old saw her GP today and has been prescribed Levothyroxine, given B12 loading and referred to haemotology as a matter of urgency to investigate her vitamin and mineral deficiencies. GP has not been at all negligent.
Clutter , the mother of the 8 year old girl had time to go and get the blood test results from her GP. I know that the mother posting did not state when the blood tests were taken. However, every single one of those blood results are dire. In the past, when a blood result of mine was off the scale, the lab has phoned my GP to warn them that a blood result was very serious and in turn the GP phoned me that same day to say please come into the surgery. I beg to differ that the GP in this case has not been negligent. She is 8 years old - a tiny person.
Hi in my post the results were taken 3 days before I saw GP. The GP called me in to discuss them
Thank you for clarification.
I agree with you. My bloods were highlighted in red as being hyper but my gp never did anything about it. It’s only when I saw another gp in the same practice that something was done. He sent me to an endocrinologist . I had an ultrasound and was told I have a goitre and nodules on my thyroid. Waiting for a biopsy and started Carbimazole 4 days ago. My normal gp is still adamant that my blood have always been the same so he is not worried. I have been unwell for 5 years.!!!
And another thing. I had my ovaries and tubes removed last March. They found a borderline ovarian tumour. Had another ct scan in October. The consultant phoned me a week later to say it was clear. Was called to go to gynaecologist yesterday to be told I have a 3 cms nodule in the pelvic area. Will know more next week. Did the consultant actually looked at my scan? How could he miss that?
My lab refuses to test all requested thyroid levels time after time , thin GP ad Endo have to be chased then they chase the Lab, often its too late. The endo says it costs just £1 to add FT3 !!!
I have had GP's say no further action needed and all is well even when the lab reports all 3 TH's are out of range.
Negligent and incompetent.
I have to say that although some gps clearly need another job not all are like that.
I dropped my bloods at the labs at 8pm( I had them done in Work) and at 9am I had a phone call asking me to go in urgently that day. The labs had contacted the surgery as my tsh was so high. I also have never once been told that as I was in range I must be fine, well not by my current doctor anyway!
It’s just a shame that we hear all the bad reports and not the good ones x
In my experience 60 years of GP's, their surgeries often do not give out "good" results, but tell me at my once/year meds discussion that my last results were indeed "good" I'd hesitate to say they all do it, but it sometimes seems like that.
All thye seem to be interested in is anti-depressants and saying that tests are "normal" regardless of the actual numbers.
I think doctors are very constrained by the guidelines. Very deskilled and they are encouraged not to use their brains. It reminds me of the story with teachers - having restrictive syllabus and constant testing for the children.
It's standardisation at the expense of quality. There's a terrible fear that some doctors / teachers /whatever are doing a poor job, so they have to pull up that bottom group. But it means reducing the quality across the board to some standardised point, so that its not possible for any doctor to do a better job. And it seems like many standards are set to save money, to the benefit of pharmaceutical companies, etc.
I have little faith in anyone medical actually checking test results these days.
Four weeks after I’d had an ECG and a 24hr monitor, I went to see my GP about a totally different matter. Before I had a chance to sit down, she told me not to panic, but that she had just looked at my test results and I needed to go directly to A&E, and I was not allowed to drive myself there either. One wonders how long it might have taken for anyone to have done anything if I hadn’t been there.
(I was relatively OK, by the way - several hours of intensive testing, with a further three years under the care of a cardiologist.)
Can GPs only test thyroid once a year?
B12 Deficiency - a definite listen-to video
Have we got this wrong about our GPs having little knowledge?
Threatening Meeting with 2 gps at my practice yesterday 
