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Please help, doctor issue

  • 21-06-2012 6:05pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I have tried to ask for help in other area of boards and have not got any replys so I am trying here because i know you guys and gals are very honost and helpful.
    i have some questions i need to know the anwser to by tomorrow.
    there is a back round story and reason i need your help but i wont get into that now.
    But i need to know
    1) Can you get a HIV test at a general GP?
    2)Can i be guarenteed 100% confidentiality?
    3) There is a legal issue involved, is a doctor obliged to report a crime to the gards against a patients will?
    4) I have a medical card, will there be any costs involved in getting the test?

    Thank you inadvance, i really appreciate this.


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  • #2
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    1) Can you get a HIV test at a general GP?

    I believe so, yes, but it will cost money and take time to come back.


    2)Can i be guarenteed 100% confidentiality?

    Where there are humans involved, you can never gaurentee anything, but from a medical point of view, yes. As far as I know.

    3) There is a legal issue involved, is a doctor obliged to report a crime to the gards against a patients will?

    If the people involved are under 18, then yes, as far as I know. However, if it is a violent crime, more than likely you will be encouraged to press charges. Mostly, Doctors tend to operate a safety check, so if there is serious risk to someone, then that would override their medical oath. However, I am neither a Doctor nor a solicitor, so I don't fully know.

    4) I have a medical card, will there be any costs involved in getting the test?

    I have no idea.


  • #3
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    MSM health service STI clinics are free and confidential. No need to worry because a medical card would cover a lot of it, if not all if there ever was a charge.

    For Full STI Screening and Blood Tests for HIV*, Syphilis, Hepatitis and others,
    results come back in one Week: You may have an initial swab result at the clinic but most results (including the HIV test) are back in ONE week.

    PEP: Pep is available for sexual exposure to HIV within the previous 72 hours. (if you feel you may have contacted it and are still under the time limit, go for it)


    *Assuming that it has shown itself up in the blood and is detectable of course(At 90 days, 95% of HIV cases will be positive. At 6 months, 99% of HIV cases will be positive)


  • #4
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    pezehelpme wrote: »
    But i need to know
    1) Can you get a HIV test at a general GP?
    Yes.
    pezehelpme wrote: »
    2)Can i be guarenteed 100% confidentiality?
    Receptionist can see your file.

    Using your Med Card means it'll go on your Record. When applying for Health Insurance and maybe Life Insurance it'll affect premiums.

    STI Clinics in Ireland

    http://www.whatclinic.com/doctors/ireland/sexual-health-advice

    http://www.goldenpages.ie/sexual-health-centres/
    pezehelpme wrote: »
    3) There is a legal issue involved, is a doctor obliged to report a crime to the gards against a patients will?
    I don't know.

    Ask GP what Patient Confidentiality covers when you go in or don't tell him/her the details and he can't report anything I suppose.

    What age are you?

    Talk to someone.
    pezehelpme wrote: »
    4) I have a medical card, will there be any costs involved in getting the test?
    No



    I'm no expert on HIV but I think it's still 3 months before it'll show in blood test.........http://www.avert.org/testing.htm


    Get the whole STD panel done when you're in there. GP can do them all.


    Good Luck.


  • #5
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    If you go to an STD clinic, it's completely free, every disease is checked for, and if they ask if you would like a copy sent to your GP so if you don't they won't! In my experience they are very good, confidential and nice to ask questions to. If you are like me, you won't want your GP sticking swabs up place so I'd chance the clinic.


  • #6
    floggg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭floggg


    I don't know the answers to your questions but if you think there is a risk you may have contracted HIV the answers are irrelevant - get tested! It's too serious a thing to put off or avoid, no matter what the reason.

    Hopefully you won't have any issue but if you had contracted HIV and leave it go untreated I guarantee you won't look back and be happy you didn't.

    Hope you're ok as from the sounds of things it may have been a traumatic experience. Best of luck


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  • #7
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    RUCKING FETARD wrote: »
    Using your Med Card means it'll go on your Record. When applying for Health Insurance and maybe Life Insurance it'll affect premiums.

    There is no centralised EHR system in Ireland, as yet, and when there is one it is unlikely to get previous data uploaded without practice-by-practice consent from each patient.

    Should the OP use a GP other than their own, that a test was done won't even be known.

    The era of insurers loading people purely for having *had* an STI test is ending as more and more jobs require them for safety reasons.

    Test results are down to ~1 week via the NVRL and can be sent electronically to the GP as of about three months ago.


  • #8
    RUCKING FETARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    MYOB wrote: »
    There is no centralised EHR system in Ireland, as yet, and when there is one it is unlikely to get previous data uploaded without practice-by-practice consent from each patient.
    I'm only repeating what a GP said.
    MYOB wrote: »
    Should the OP use a GP other than their own, that a test was done won't even be known.
    Not if you use your Med Card.


    MYOB wrote: »
    The era of insurers loading people purely for having *had* an STI test is ending as more and more jobs require them for safety reasons.
    It's looking like that but I don't know enough to comment.


  • #9
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    RUCKING FETARD wrote: »
    I'm only repeating what a GP said.

    And that GP was inaccurate.
    RUCKING FETARD wrote: »
    Not if you use your Med Card.

    There is absolutely and utterly no common EHR. Medical card or not. My industry.
    RUCKING FETARD wrote: »
    It's looking like that but I don't know enough to comment.

    I do.


  • #10
    ShanePouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 83 ✭✭ShanePouch


    pezehelpme wrote: »
    I have tried to ask for help in other area of boards and have not got any replys so I am trying here because i know you guys and gals are very honost and helpful.
    i have some questions i need to know the anwser to by tomorrow.
    there is a back round story and reason i need your help but i wont get into that now.
    But i need to know
    1) Can you get a HIV test at a general GP?
    2)Can i be guarenteed 100% confidentiality?
    3) There is a legal issue involved, is a doctor obliged to report a crime to the gards against a patients will?
    4) I have a medical card, will there be any costs involved in getting the test?

    Thank you inadvance, i really appreciate this.

    You can be guaranteed 100% confidentiality if you give a false name and address.

    If you are just going for an HIV test, why does the doctor need to know anything about legal issues? All he needs to know is that you are requesting an HIV test and there is no need to involve the doctor is any other issues.

    If you are distressed about this, you could ring a surgery and ask to speak to a doctor, without giving your name. Tell the doctor of your worries and ask about those things of which you are concerned. Then thank him, put the phone down, and if you are happy about the answers, call and make an appointment to see that doctor, either with an assumed name or not as you please, or call a different surgery to make an appointment happy that no questions will be asked beyond you requesting an HIV test.


  • #11
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Unfortunately there aren't many surgeries around that will let someone speak to a doctor anonymously and/or unregistered with the practice. Most won't even let you phone the doctor directly, you need to be called back.


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  • #12
    ShanePouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 83 ✭✭ShanePouch


    MYOB wrote: »
    Unfortunately there aren't many surgeries around that will let someone speak to a doctor anonymously and/or unregistered with the practice. Most won't even let you phone the doctor directly, you need to be called back.

    If the surgery is that sort of surgery that won't let you speak to a doctor for the reassurance you require, then my guess is they are best avoided and you find one who is a little more helpful than that at the telephone stage. There are plenty of GP's out there we want to help you and give you the reassurances you need, and it's not uncommon to want to remain anonymous in your situation, and many GP's will respect that.


  • #13
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Shanepouch

    I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve in this forum. On the one hand you give us all lectures about not taking advice. Then you give advice about Irish GPs even though you live in the UK. It seems that you are trolling.

    Please stop doing this.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #14
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    ShanePouch wrote: »
    If the surgery is that sort of surgery that won't let you speak to a doctor for the reassurance you require, then my guess is they are best avoided and you find one who is a little more helpful than that at the telephone stage. There are plenty of GP's out there we want to help you and give you the reassurances you need, and it's not uncommon to want to remain anonymous in your situation, and many GP's will respect that.

    You're not going to get past the receptionist, for starters.


  • #15
    ShanePouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 83 ✭✭ShanePouch


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Shanepouch

    I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve in this forum. On the one hand you give us all lectures about not taking advice. Then you give advice about Irish GPs even though you live in the UK. It seems that you are trolling.

    Please stop doing this.

    The only advice I have given is to contact a doctor, and have given no advice about Irish doctors either individually or as a group. To me, it is common sense that the OP is distressed as he does not know what to expect should he choose to visit a GP. It seems common sense to explain those fears to a GP, on an anonymous basis if that's what he chooses, and be reassured.

    I am not sure why where I live should be relevant, and I live in both the UK and Ireland, but more and more in the UK of late.

    I have never said no one should not take advice, and what I have said and am wary of is the value of any medical advice given by strangers on the internet, and I have no problem if you take a different stance.


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