I wonder if we’d need to rely on Doctors educated in 1970’s Egypt if the BMA didn’t artificially limit Doctor training places.
NowThatHappened on
So it occurred in 2010, so 14 years ago and was de-registered 6 years later. So nice to be see the swift resolve with which authorities acted. Nothing happened after that except he asked for his license back 2 years ago and was told no. Slow news day…. Again.
mitchanium on
I felt i have really good GPs at my surgery, but even I am now aware of the constant staff (GP) turnover, and lack of familiarity/continuity with their patients to the point that I now want a second opinion on all internal issues.
I guess what I’m saying is that I just can’t trust their (internal issues) diagnoses any more, and, if this is wider problem, then we have people like me hogging resources simply because the government is winging it on bare min services and hoping people trust their first diagnosis.
Ps yes, I feel guilty for hogging, and no, I don’t regret it, and yes, I have had contradictory advice from 2x GPs on a life & death diagnosis within 2 weeks.
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Same hospital, my wife was misdiagnosed with a miscarriage when in fact it was an ectopic pregnancy. A week later she went away and ended up in hospital and losing a fallopian tube and having an infection. Clearly the hospital didn’t learn the lesson as this was 10 years later.
TheJuiceyJuice on
I experienced an ectopic pregnancy, and I’ll be honest, the care I received was crap. It destroyed me.
I was put in a room with women who had viable pregnancies. I was bleeding, being sick and fainting all over the place, and sometimes had male doctors examining me. I was sent home in agonising pain and told to take paracetamol. I can’t even begin to explain how much pain results from an ectopic pregnancy, but I can remember it all so vividly.
I returned to the hospital an hour later after being violently sick.
I had my fallopian tube removed… eventually. There was no after care, no support services, or signposting just a leaflet and a “bye then.”
The nurses were fantastic, though. It wouldn’t be possible, but I’d love to see more progressing on to be doctors. They have far more compassion. The doctors barely spoke to me, but the nurses were incredible. They were the ones that got me through that whole nightmare.
When I think back to that time and how bad that experience was, I remind myself of actually how great the nurses were. I genuinely felt protected by them. They cried with me, sat with me, comforted me in what was by far the worst, traumatic, confusing, scary, and most excruciating time of my life.
We really need very well trained doctors handling cases like this because if handled incorrectly, the impact on the person is lifelong, and PTSD is real.
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I wonder if we’d need to rely on Doctors educated in 1970’s Egypt if the BMA didn’t artificially limit Doctor training places.
So it occurred in 2010, so 14 years ago and was de-registered 6 years later. So nice to be see the swift resolve with which authorities acted. Nothing happened after that except he asked for his license back 2 years ago and was told no. Slow news day…. Again.
I felt i have really good GPs at my surgery, but even I am now aware of the constant staff (GP) turnover, and lack of familiarity/continuity with their patients to the point that I now want a second opinion on all internal issues.
I guess what I’m saying is that I just can’t trust their (internal issues) diagnoses any more, and, if this is wider problem, then we have people like me hogging resources simply because the government is winging it on bare min services and hoping people trust their first diagnosis.
Ps yes, I feel guilty for hogging, and no, I don’t regret it, and yes, I have had contradictory advice from 2x GPs on a life & death diagnosis within 2 weeks.
Same hospital, my wife was misdiagnosed with a miscarriage when in fact it was an ectopic pregnancy. A week later she went away and ended up in hospital and losing a fallopian tube and having an infection. Clearly the hospital didn’t learn the lesson as this was 10 years later.
I experienced an ectopic pregnancy, and I’ll be honest, the care I received was crap. It destroyed me.
I was put in a room with women who had viable pregnancies. I was bleeding, being sick and fainting all over the place, and sometimes had male doctors examining me. I was sent home in agonising pain and told to take paracetamol. I can’t even begin to explain how much pain results from an ectopic pregnancy, but I can remember it all so vividly.
I returned to the hospital an hour later after being violently sick.
I had my fallopian tube removed… eventually. There was no after care, no support services, or signposting just a leaflet and a “bye then.”
The nurses were fantastic, though. It wouldn’t be possible, but I’d love to see more progressing on to be doctors. They have far more compassion. The doctors barely spoke to me, but the nurses were incredible. They were the ones that got me through that whole nightmare.
When I think back to that time and how bad that experience was, I remind myself of actually how great the nurses were. I genuinely felt protected by them. They cried with me, sat with me, comforted me in what was by far the worst, traumatic, confusing, scary, and most excruciating time of my life.
We really need very well trained doctors handling cases like this because if handled incorrectly, the impact on the person is lifelong, and PTSD is real.