Lucky dip..

[TWATTOX]

It seems most doctors are rubbish at treating thyroid problems properly....was just wondering what else they are rubbish at treating?

[Aurealis]

The internet and sites like this are game changers. For many many years they got away with telling Thyroid patients lies. ‘Your results are normal’, ‘you’re taking too high a dose’, ‘it’s not your thyroid’, ‘you’re depressed. Well they are still saying these things but now we compare notes and we’re better informed.

But in answer to your question - pernicious anaemia, diabetes, cancer - if I’d been better informed my parents would have had a better quality of life in their final years, and perhaps lived longer too. I will always regret...

[humanbean]

was just wondering what else they are rubbish at treating?

Gynaecological problems.

[Marz]

Listening - and working together as a team with their patients ...

[Rapunzel]

Depression... told to pull myself together yes really

Menopause... you are too young

Hair loss... let me arrange some corticosteroid injections to your scalp... back off you sadistic tool they do not work

Hypothyroidism... you are in range rejoice (and go away)

Hypothyroidism... I have treated people with TSH over 100... no you haven't you donkey you've left them high and dry at the top of the range and by the way this is a consultation not a TSH contest

Don't get me started. I happen to know that one of my gp's poor patients died in his consulting room whilst begging for further tests for his heart complaint. I hug my privileged knowledge to me whenever he kicks off with some further jackassery. Having listened to a litany of similar tomfoolery on this forum I am resigned for the foreseeable future to this complaint being treated as some kind of hysterical woman's ailment. 99% the people we pay through our taxes in the UK to treat us have an unassailable belief that levothyroxine is the one-size-fits-all Magic Bullet and have robbed countless women of the full and vibrant lives they have every right to believe they're capable of. Including me. A pox on the lot of them

[Aurealis in reply to Rapunzel]

Your post is really sad but you made me laugh too. You are so accurate. Poor man

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Took them two years to work out I had gallstones. Was told the pain was all in my mind and give anti-depressants! Had lost 2 stone before being diagnosed!

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[Jazzw]

I can’t quite decide what it is. I try to avoid going to my doctor unless something’s falling out or falling off. So when I do go, I’m usually really worried because of pain that hasn’t abated in weeks or feeling rough for months. Of the handful of times I’ve visited the doctor in my 49 years of life, I’ve come out of the surgery, sat in my car (the surgery’s on the other side of town) and wept at the condescension, at the dismissive attitude I’ve just received, at the complete lack of compassion. Generally, I’ve had to find my own fixes - a change of diet, osteopathy, sourcing NDT on the internet, you name it, I’ve probably tried it at some point.

I guess there are so many people who go to the doctor for every little pain, ache and pimple that GPs assume we’re all hoping to get signed off work or something? I don’t know. I do know that my mother went to her GP worried about her change in bowel habit 3 times before anyone bothered to send her for a scan, the appointment for which arrived a month after she’d ended up in hospital after a scan paid for privately which revealed she had a variation on a theme of ovarian cancer. My husband visited 2 or 3 times in the year before dying from cancer with symptoms that no doctor seemed to care about despite blood tests clearly showing something was amiss.

Maybe we *should* introduce a charge for seeing your GP. Because I can’t help but wonder whether they’re so overwhelmed with people going to them with minor irritations they’ve got compassion fatigue. Or maybe training for GPs is just crap these days? Some of them barely want to turn around from their computer screen. Why do a job if you hate it so much?

Anyone ever watch “Behind Closed Doors” and wonder at the lovely GPs they seem to have at that practice? Mine is absolutely nothing like that

Sorry, that turned into an unexpected rant.

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I want Professor Khan!!

[Mannequin18 in reply to Jazzw]

I agree with everything in your message.

I think they are lazy. I am in my 70`s and have only had 3 good doctors in my life.

I don't think our doc's are overworked. Whenever I go to the surgery (as little as possible). It's always empty. Despite numerous doctors there.

I lived if France and our GP' s there worked alone and till 9pm, and had a Que out the door, and did a propper job. Anything wrong and you were seen the same day by a specialist.

People may say that you have to pay for that service, but we pay far more in this country with all the hidden taxes.

I am hypothyroidism, and have PA, glaucoma, and osteoarthritis.

Whenever I mention to the doctor that I am autoimmune (if I go with a problem), they look sideways at me as if I am mental.

If ever I get a virus or infection, it takes me 2/3 months, or sometimes longer to fight it, will they listen. I am taking care of an Alzheimer's person, you would think that when I get ill that I would get support. Think again, you are on your own. What a let down.

Good luck to us all.

[tinkerbell22]

Everything? Lol.

My partner went to one doctor after having her gallbladder out. She has continued debilitating problems with bile post surgery. She was questioning her liver which produces bile and the Dr said "the liver or bile isn't the issue. The gallbladder produced bile and now you have no gallbladder, so there's no bile". Huh?! This is the Dr that received a caution after a patient died because he didn't spot the signs of an illness. Not struck off though....

[silverfox7]

I think we have to remember they are General practitioners and medicine isfar reaching these days but having said that I would expect them to do some research h on things that are new to them. My preferred GP at my surgery admitted she knew very little re thyroid issues but knows of someone who does but she listens. At one time she told me to stop taking vitamins, health diet and I that-I drew her attention to my 142 food intolerances so I wasecentually told to continue but she has obviously been reading up and listening to her friend as well as last year I walked in and she decided as I'd never had a cholesterol test she would do one but she also asked if any other tests I wanted! So now it's documented to test Vit D, B12, folate and ferritin yearly so I'm making headway and she is interacting more. I'm still at the hospital so get my T3 tested but I have more respect for her saying she knows nothing but at least is improving her knowledge that some I hear about who tell you you are fine and so are your results! Now that surgeries have several doctors then I think dividing the major disciplines between them would be advantageous so that at least one of them can help. Thyroid issues are noted to be on the increase so I would expect that to be one of them. I did find out when one of the other doctors said they had a thyroid person on the list on grains that she must have told the others to be prepared for that!

[endomad]

Our local hospital Leicester royal infirmary struck off a Dr who made catastrophic errors ending in the death of a young boy with downs syndrome. She was reinstated within months!!! Imagine the parents horror, their child died because of this Dr and she is back practicing as if nothing happened, so other children are possibly at risk. You have to be a serial murderer like Dr Shipman to really get struck off....well unless you are doing good works like Dr's skinner, Peatfield and myhill, then you are persecuted for the audacity.

[Aurealis in reply to endomad]

It’s absolutely mad