Off Topic Visiting Your GP

The other day I had a reason to visit my doctor. They keep on saying it "if you have any unusual
thing , it is better to see your doctor asp"
I had this back pain that came up suddenly, it was my believe to see my doctor at the earliest
opportunity. I have been with the surgery for more than thirty years, and with my doctor for my more
than twenty years. So we are not strange to one another.
I saw the doctor and explained my health issue to him. He took his time and examined me.
His Conclusion: Do you have paracetamol ?
If not , go and buy some.
My observation: Doctors are not willing to prescribe anything for you especially if you are not going to pay.
I remember when we pay 20p for prescription, now it is about £7.00.
NHS is getting worse.

 

Meh... I calculated I spend about $30,000 on healthcare a year for my family and I've never had surgery... And that's not including anything that comes out of my pay cheque for government programs like Medicaid and Medicare.

You have no right to complain.

We have the opposite problem here. Doctors prescribe way too much medicine here.

 

Prescriptions are free in Wales.

 

It's worth paying not to go to Wales though.

 

Silverstone is the next race so better get a ticket soon

 

$30,000 says otherwise

 

England (not the UK, not the NHS) charges for prescriptions, so if the cost of the medicine is less than the cost of the prescription doctors just tell you to save your money and buy it cheaply.

If you had a serious problem and needed, e.g. £100,000 of cancer medication, that £7 doesn't look so bad.

What's the whinge here?

 

Maybe I will come and live in Wales luv.

 

No... Too many Welsh people that aren't Catherine Zeta Jones... I'll pay the $30k...






/ I actually quite like Wales, I'm joking fwiw.

 

Let me know if you decide to.

 

New generation of GP's know **** all...become glorified consultant secretaries.

At least in my area anyway.

 

Since every surgery is managing its own budget, they are too conscious of spending.

 

My GP's sound

 

Mine are only sound if you do the work for them. They used the NHS website in front of me so many times I started doing the research myself before going to appointment and explaining it to them. Seemed to speed up the process..

Instead of being lied to that they were referring me I actually got referred to experts. General GO response is to dole out painkillers and antibiotics.

The new battle is doing the research on the medications they have me on so that I can explain to them the side effects directly compare to my symptoms.. .They go through denial, foot dragging but slowly getting there. Im assuming because once I've highlighted it they have to cover their arses and act.

Lucky for me I'm computer literate and not trusting them on doing their actual job rather than me doing it for them.

I'd say it's a one off except there has been at least 3 takeovers of the practice and a rotation of about 15 doctors...worse still they are officially designated as a teaching surgery...!

Even simple things..i don't expect, even though it's a small town for them to immediately remember me and my complaints (although the original practice owner managed it) but since they are so strict on the 10 minute appointment length...maybe look up my file for 2 minutes before I come in from waiting room so I don't have to repeatedly waste 7 of those 10 minutes going over my case history....i mean it's all on screen now ffs!

 

err you can buy packets of paracetamol for 30p why would you want a prescription.The decision to stop prescriptions like that came from the NHS itself not the individual GP practices though why any prescibed that sort of thing is beyond me.

 

There are stronger pain killer which I expect him to prescribe for me. He did this when I had arthritis and worked fine. You cannot buy such off the counter.

 

he obviously didn't think you needed anything that strong.

 

So you were looking to score some good stuff with a story about a sore back that came from nowhere

#seemslegit

 

I've heard @Skylarker can hook you up with the good stuff.