Are GPs useless?

I've told the doctors i'm gonna go to A&E and he tells me nothing different will happen because i've already had a blood test and chest x-ray. I'll probably have to wait 6 hours to be told to go home.
 
Done the diet analysis yet?

I've told the dog i'm gonna go to win the lottery and he tells me nothing different will happen because i've already had a bowl of water out and gave him a bone. I'll probably have to wait 6 hours to be told to go out and poop.
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Right. So i'll catch a bus tomorrow, because the hospital is an hour away and i'll go in there. I'll post back here and tell you the results. But honestly, hopefully they make me stay for a few days. I've suffered with this **** for so long i just want a diagnosis, i don't care if it's horrible bad news where it's life threatening or something - at least i'll know.

Tefal said:
op just how hideously obese are you?
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I'm a huge 10 and a half stone at 5ft 11.
 
powlesY said:
Right. So i'll catch a bus tomorrow, because the hospital is an hour away and i'll go in there. I'll post back here and tell you the results. But honestly, hopefully they make me stay for a few days. I've suffered with this **** for so long i just want a diagnosis, i don't care if it's horrible bad news where it's life threatening or something - at least i'll know.



I'm a huge 10 and a half stone at 5ft 11.
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Did you do a dietry analysis yet?
Are you taking even the simpliest of steps to try to resolve this issue?
You seem to want to be told you have canver and won't stop until you find someone who will tell you it. You don't care if it is bad news, but you won't accept anything short of bad news.

Do the diet analysis. Times, dates of everything you eat drink put in mouth over a 14 day period, with no lies.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Did you do a dietry analysis yet?
Are you taking even the simpliest of steps to try to resolve this issue?
You seem to want to be told you have canver and won't stop until you find someone who will tell you it. You don't care if it is bad news, but you won't accept anything short of bad news.

Do the diet analysis. Times, dates of everything you eat drink put in mouth over a 14 day period, with no lies.
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I would but i know i eat healthy varied meals. No fizzy drinks, no sweets, nothing sugary. Anyway, guess i better go look at bus times.
 
Just wanted to add my 2p to this. The GP I used at home was useless, injured my shoulder, thought it was nothing but pain persisted after a week. Decided to go to the doctors. Got there and she asked me to raise my arms to a T shape, right arm went straight up, the left arm however only got to about 45 degrees at which point I was sweating, shaking and in a lot of visible pain.
The diagnosis? You're fine just take some more ibuprofen.

Went to the hospital a week later because the pain was still there, had it xrayed and it turned out I had broke the scapula in two places. Since the injury had gone untreated so long it had started to heal incorrectly so I'm stuck with a dodgey shoulder for life due to GP incompetance.

Have also seen the doctors at this practice googling, a very weird sensation when you presume you're in the room with a professional then you see them typing things as you say them into google.
 
For me the problem is that we seem to have, on the whole, rejected these so called 'super surgeries' - all in one centres.

you see what we really need is to stop relying on the best guesses of GP's - there should be a much simpler on site, quicker, path to the relevant tests (the harmless tests) to rule out issues properly.

My example is in keeping with many others; it's not the incompetence issue I think is relevant it's just that the GP is following a routine. I really want an x-ray of my chest but ive been told twice that my cough (been coughing for 10+ weeks) is probably viral - but why guess? Get me an x-ray and rule out something more serious.
 
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ethan said:
(2) Volterol increases the anti-blood-clotting effect, which can result in an increased risk of bleeding or increased time taken to stop bleeding, if used in combination with heparin. Other physicians told me it was ludricous for them to have kept me on it. I am also on warfarin which is similar and no physician in their right mind would put you on volterol with it for the same reasons/issues.
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Sorry, but this is just plain wrong if you know the interactions and consequences you can do that.
 
SSRI's are useful for stomach cramping in IBS at a low dose. A lot of medication doesn't just have one use, for example propranolol is used to treat hypertension and anxiety.
 
When I was suffering from diabetes, my first GP told me to "walk it off" and that I'd feel better soon. The second GP prescribed me antibiotics. It was only the third GP who finally caught it, and that was only because I suggested it based on googling my symptoms.

Since then, I've had a fairly dim view of GPs.
 
ethan said:
Yes I apologise you are quite correct and I am about to do just that. Thank you
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I am correct actually. But I would caution you not to do it as you quite clearly do not possess any medical knowledge to make such a call.

Probable Mechanism:
Coadministration of NSAIDs and heparin may result in increased risk of haemorrhagic events due to simultaneous inhibition of the clotting cascade and platelet mechanisms of haemostasis. Although studies have found that concomitant use of low-dose heparin and indometacin or ketorolac do not significantly increase bleeding events, it is recommended that combination of an NSAID and heparin should generally be used with caution, and patients should be monitored for signs of bleeding. It has also been recommended that the use of intravenous diclofenac and ketorolac with heparin, including low-dose heparin, should be avoided if possible.
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http://www.mims.com/USA/interaction/Search/diclofenac|heparin

Most drugs are advised against with known kidney and liver problems yet strangely enough we still give them - with caution and monitoring. Which is rather different from a categorical do not give together.
 
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Xordium said:
I don't know about mixing NSAID's and heparin if I were you I'd stop mixing the acid and the vodka. You aren't making any sense in either thread.
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You mean like your inventions/assumptions and criticisms? :rolleyes:

You know what the above reads to me? It reads like an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of but in your case an invention of the person supporting it.

It's quite ludricous really. In the other thread some of those who feel I have criticised them or who are generally curious are busying themselves trying to ascertain my job status from a general comment I made about the description of my job? lol. FFS. why should it even matter on a General discussion forum?


However, regarding the NSAID's I was responding to the situation I previously discussed earlier on in this thread with Doohicky, a follow on from the post illustrated below.

Many people safely take Voltarol (and similar drugs) with warfarin. My point is that it wasn't 'ludricrous' or wrong if your hospital doctors kept you on it.
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Afterall, your own quote goes on to say
if you know the interactions and consequences you can do that.
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I am therefore seeking a consultation with my GP to safely take a prescription of volterol and warfarin. God only knows what it is you're taking.
 
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Bit of advice, if you think volterol might help you chronic pain, and you might be on it for a longtime, don't start the GP consultation by stating you are a 'medical trainer' with a company who's specific interest is negating the risks associated with NEVER events. Events which should never happen, and are always due to people's faults, and can't be explianed in any other manner.

You'll likely find yourself on the paracetamol for life. Wouldn't want to risk a never event, would we?
 
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