whiskey
04-09-2009, 07:54 PM
Hello everyone, i've joined this forum just to share my experience with GPs in the NHS: not good!
Fact: 1st year medical students are expected to identify appendicitus. Two GPs (well, i had to get a second opinion:confused: ) allowed me to go through the stages of appendicitus, gangrenous appendix, burst appendix and finally appendicitus without once making a correct diagnosis - bloody GPs!
They threw around various diagnosis- dodgy curry, pregnacy (!?), urinary infection - but ultimately advised me not to worry and to just keep taking painkillers. Which i did not get a prescription for.
Apart from three days off, which i estimate is around the time my appendix was bursting, i kept going to college through all this! After all, two highly trained medical proffessionals had told me i was fit and well, why should i doubt them.
I finally went to A'n'E when i realised that what i was experiencing ammounted to unbearable agony. The Triage rushed me through to a Consulatant who was absolutely fantastic- he checked me over, told me in five minutes that it was neglected peritonitus (!) when the bloods, ultrasound and x-rays came back he estimated that i had had peritonitus for two weeks. Under health guidlines peritonitus is considered a medical emergency and should be treated within the first 48 hours as after that mortality rates increase dramatically:( Particularly annoying is that the GP had checked me over just the day before and diagnosed me with a urinary infection (idoit).
I was rushed through for emergency surgery, and i have to say the NHS really delivered on that; the surgical team i had were fantastic (particularly the Anaesthetist and Consultant Surgeon) and was never really scared of anything going wrong.
Still: the GPs i saw were either lazy or stupid and did not perform their job properly. They were obviously relying on accident and emergency to pick up any lose ends while they fannied about with painkillers to sort me out within the five minutes they're allowed to see patients in.
On the reccomendation of the Consultant who saw me in hospital i'm filing a complaint against the two GPs who saw me, i'm not spiteful but they really out to step their game up:mad:
Fact: 1st year medical students are expected to identify appendicitus. Two GPs (well, i had to get a second opinion:confused: ) allowed me to go through the stages of appendicitus, gangrenous appendix, burst appendix and finally appendicitus without once making a correct diagnosis - bloody GPs!
They threw around various diagnosis- dodgy curry, pregnacy (!?), urinary infection - but ultimately advised me not to worry and to just keep taking painkillers. Which i did not get a prescription for.
Apart from three days off, which i estimate is around the time my appendix was bursting, i kept going to college through all this! After all, two highly trained medical proffessionals had told me i was fit and well, why should i doubt them.
I finally went to A'n'E when i realised that what i was experiencing ammounted to unbearable agony. The Triage rushed me through to a Consulatant who was absolutely fantastic- he checked me over, told me in five minutes that it was neglected peritonitus (!) when the bloods, ultrasound and x-rays came back he estimated that i had had peritonitus for two weeks. Under health guidlines peritonitus is considered a medical emergency and should be treated within the first 48 hours as after that mortality rates increase dramatically:( Particularly annoying is that the GP had checked me over just the day before and diagnosed me with a urinary infection (idoit).
I was rushed through for emergency surgery, and i have to say the NHS really delivered on that; the surgical team i had were fantastic (particularly the Anaesthetist and Consultant Surgeon) and was never really scared of anything going wrong.
Still: the GPs i saw were either lazy or stupid and did not perform their job properly. They were obviously relying on accident and emergency to pick up any lose ends while they fannied about with painkillers to sort me out within the five minutes they're allowed to see patients in.
On the reccomendation of the Consultant who saw me in hospital i'm filing a complaint against the two GPs who saw me, i'm not spiteful but they really out to step their game up:mad: