Rant..experience at doctor this week!

Oranage2 · 08-02-2013 05:30PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Lucky thats all you cant understand, I dont have a focking breeze whats going on at all!

I think this is what happened.

Girl goes to doctor, doctor said she had a cold. Girl said no and started crying. Doctor told her to go to the hospital. Girl refused.

Girl goes back and sees another doctor.new Doctor is more sympathetic and gives girl antibiotics. Girl is satisfied with the diagnoses.

They end!

08-02-2013 05:33PM

Surely any good doctor, when confronted with an obviously overwhelmed patient, is going to ask about stress?

And after asking her about stress she got more emotional? Isn't that a red flag for anxiety and stress?

I think this story was a two way street and not a simple case of the doctor not listening. I think he was doing the right thing alerting the other doctor to the possiblity of his patient being stressed. He'd be wrong not to.

Larianne · 08-02-2013 05:35PM

The OP went to the doctor, with a really bad cold. Doctor told the OP it was a common cold, OP didn't really listen to the doctor and went on about the pains in his/her stomach. OP thought the stomach pains were related to the chest. Doctor said again chest problem was a common cold. Doctor was trying to find out (possibly) was stress causing the stomach pains (could have been an ulcer etc.) and because the OP wasn't particularly paying attention to what the doctor was saying, the doctor started writing a referral to A&E to shut up the OP.

Doctor could have went about it a different way if the patient seemed stressed. At least checking the OPs chest and temp etc.

It could be possible that the second doctor probably gave the prescription for antibiotics just to get rid of the patient.

It is also possible the doctors in that surgery how have an 'opinion' of you OP and I wouldn't go there again.

Valetta · 08-02-2013 05:36PM

Why does everyone assume the OP is female?

Lollipops23 · 08-02-2013 05:39PM

I'm getting really fed up with the "it's too long, I ain't reading it" crowd. You're only exposing yourselves as illiterate muppets tbh.

OP I have some sympathy for you- it's hard enough to haul yourself down to the Dr when you feel like death and for him to be so bloody dismissive when you're paying a small fortune for the privilege is beyond frustrating.

Hope you feel better soon.

RainMaker · 08-02-2013 05:41PM

Candie wrote: »

Surely any good doctor, when confronted with an obviously overwhelmed patient, is going to ask about stress?

And after asking her about stress she got more emotional? Isn't that a red flag for anxiety and stress?

I think this story was a two way street and not a simple case of the doctor not listening. I think he was doing the right thing alerting the other doctor to the possiblity of his patient being stressed. He'd be wrong not to.

Except for the fact that the doctor seemed to be adding to the anxiety.
I mean surely a person goes to the doctor to get treatment for whatever is wrong with them. If the doctor does nothing but say it's "just a cold" and "it's all in your head".
I think if anybody went to the doctor with stomach pains and the doctor dismissed it as a cold, you would start to worry - you know yourself it's not just a cold and if the doctor is not willing to accept that it will only add to the worry and anxiety!

Culleeo · 08-02-2013 05:41PM

Valetta wrote: »

Why does everyone assume the OP is female?

I don't think a man would describe stomach pains as "like being in labour".

08-02-2013 05:44PM

Stheno wrote: »

Doesn't take much to upset you if one doctors visit made you cry, no wonder he asked about your stress etc.

Having a chest infection means that you get hypersecretion of mucus in your lung tissue. If this was a serious chest infection or especially pneumonia. It would be measured on the CURB65 scale. If the patient was a 2 or higher on this scale, they potentially could be hypoxic which can lead to anxiety/stress. So get down off your horse horse especially when you don't know jack**** about chest infections. obligatory :rolleyes:

IM0 · 08-02-2013 05:44PM

Larianne wrote: »

The OP went to the doctor, with a really bad cold. Doctor told the OP it was a common cold, OP didn't really listen to the doctor and went on about the pains in his/her stomach. OP thought the stomach pains were related to the chest. Doctor said again chest problem was a common cold. Doctor was trying to find out (possibly) was stress causing the stomach pains (could have been an ulcer etc.) and because the OP wasn't particularly paying attention to what the doctor was saying, the doctor started writing a referral to A&E to shut up the OP.

Doctor could have went about it a different way if the patient seemed stressed. At least checking the OPs chest and temp etc.

It could be possible that the second doctor probably gave the prescription for antibiotics just to get rid of the patient.

It is also possible the doctors in that surgery how have an 'opinion' of you OP and I wouldn't go there again.

there is one final solution here, the OP is taking rubbish and trolling
and with that consider the thread godwinned, good day miss.

08-02-2013 05:44PM

RainMaker wrote: »

Except for the fact that the doctor seemed to be adding to the anxiety.
I mean surely a person goes to the doctor to get treatment for whatever is wrong with them. If the doctor does nothing but say it's "just a cold" and "it's all in your head".
I think if anybody went to the doctor with stomach pains and the doctor dismissed it as a cold, you would start to worry - you know yourself it's not just a cold and if the doctor is not willing to accept that it will only add to the worry and anxiety!

The doc didn't say it was all in her head though. It's what the OP inferred, not necessarily what was implied.

And the OP didn't help things by saying it was stomach pains caused by her chest. And the fact she was very emotional would make any doctor ask about stress.

I'm not saying the doctor acted perfectly, but we only have a one sided histrionic account of the visit. I'm glad she got sorted in the end but I think they both could have handled it better.

Valetta · 08-02-2013 05:45PM

Culleeo wrote: »

I don't think a man would describe stomach pains as "like being in labour".

Colm Keaveney would....

BillyMitchel · 08-02-2013 05:46PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I'm getting really fed up with the "it's too long, I ain't reading it" crowd. You're only exposing yourselves as illiterate muppets tbh

Pipe down, did you see the way it was originally formatted??

No one wants to read a long post when the OP doesn't even use paragraphs.

RainMaker · 08-02-2013 05:47PM

Candie wrote: »

The doc didn't say it was all in her head though. It's what the OP inferred, not necessarily what was implied.

That seems about right, as you say doctor should have handled it better as well. You'd think doctors would be used to dealing with sick people!

barney 20v · 08-02-2013 05:47PM

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

That has to be the best comeback ive ever heard .

And oldest

eok56 · 08-02-2013 05:48PM

Apologies to people who found the post hard to read, I was as I said ranting!!! changed it a small bit, hope that makes it easier!

In response to some posters,

My issue wasn't agreeing or disagreeing with his diagnosis; rather him refusing to examine me for the any of the symptoms that I described to him and referring to me having mental rather than physical health issues.

I know at that stage I didn't require a cert for work but I thought it would be better to have one than not to have one, I got the impression from the doctor that he thought that this was the only reason I was here.

At no point was I been sent to A & E for a chest xray, I was been sent for abdominal pains that had sense gone and were the results of me taking codinex on an empty stomach. I really think he should have known this? But in my oppinion he was only giving this to appease me, he didn't believe there was anything wrong with me in the first place. Anyway been sent to A and E for something that can (and was this morning ) be treated in a GP surgery is a huge waste of resources!

Being so emotional is unlike me, I felt like crap and the doctor refused to examine me and instead referred to mental health, he wasn't even referring to a "common cold" as being the first issue just the pains in my stomach must be caused by stress/Mental health issues.

He never once examined me, that along with eluding to mental health issues and the availability of antidepressants are my issues.

I did not become emotional until he mentioned stress at least 5 times and blatantly refused to examine me.

I wasn't looking for sympathy I was looking for treatment, I was fairly sick all week, It's my first time taking an antibiotic in over
three years and they are working!
I think after paying €50 for a consultation and I think by just looking at me or listening to me trying to cough that crap out of my chest an examination was the least that I deserved but had to go back and part with another €50 for that!

Just one more thing, he kept saying I had a common cold, but I did not have a blocked runny nose and I kept pointing this out to him, it had however gone to my head by this morning!

Rant def over now!

maggiepip · 08-02-2013 05:48PM

I just stumbled on this and started reading WTF!!!!!:mad: Why are most of you being downright nasty:mad:

Lollipops23 · 08-02-2013 05:50PM

s8n wrote: »

Too much effort to read tbh. Are you still alive OP ?

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Pipe down, did you see the way it was originally formatted??

No one wants to read a long post when the OP doesn't even use paragraphs.

Some people just don't want to read.

take everything · 08-02-2013 05:52PM

Valetta wrote: »

Colm Keaveney would....

^Shamefully underthanked.

Czarcasm · 08-02-2013 05:53PM

Candie wrote: »

The doc didn't say it was all in her head though. It's what the OP inferred, not necessarily what was implied.

And the OP didn't help things by saying it was stomach pains caused by her chest. And the fact she was very emotional would make any doctor ask about stress.

I'm not saying the doctor acted perfectly, but we only have a one sided histrionic account of the visit. I'm glad she got sorted in the end but I think they both could have handled it better.

Pretty much this tbh. I go to my doctor when I feel there's something not right with me. I don't tell him how to do his job.

When my doctor has a problem with his computer he calls me. He doesn't tell me how to do my job.

We get along just fine.

twinQuins · 08-02-2013 05:55PM

RainMaker wrote: »

Except for the fact that the doctor seemed to be adding to the anxiety.
I mean surely a person goes to the doctor to get treatment for whatever is wrong with them. If the doctor does nothing but say it's "just a cold" and "it's all in your head".
I think if anybody went to the doctor with stomach pains and the doctor dismissed it as a cold, you would start to worry - you know yourself it's not just a cold and if the doctor is not willing to accept that it will only add to the worry and anxiety!

So why bother going to a doctor if you - and I'm assuming you have no such medical training or education - apparently know better?

Larianne · 08-02-2013 05:57PM

twinQuins wrote: »

So why bother going to a doctor if you - and I'm assuming you have no such medical training or education - apparently know better?

Coz he/she wanted drugs.
Doctors need to prescribe them.

westies4ever · 08-02-2013 05:57PM

AnonoBoy · 08-02-2013 05:59PM

I've skipped to the end of this thread so can someone fill me in on whether the OP got to the hospital before the parasites burrowed out of her stomach or not?

Thanks.

eok56 · 08-02-2013 06:01PM

Larianne wrote: »

Coz he/she wanted drugs.
Doctors need to prescribe them.

Yes and no, if he had examined me and found that I didn't have a bacterial infection there is no way that I would have wanted to be prescribed antibiotics. Over the counter flu and cold remedies would have done me fine in that case.

Stheno · 08-02-2013 06:01PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I've skipped to the end of this thread so can someone fill me in on whether the OP got to the hospital before the parasites burrowed out of her stomach or not?

Thanks.

No they've gone into hibernation, the antibiotics are helping with the chest infection.

They may yet explode alien style.

cuana · 08-02-2013 06:13PM

I had a miserable experience last year! I Hurt my back so fairly new to the area I didn't know of any GP's I struggled to be seen I went to three GP surgery's & refused to see me as I wasn't a registered patient miserable and in agony I thought I can't believe I'm going to have to go to A&E to be seen! To be fair I was properly being brave & overly polite that I needed attention! So eventually I got to the fourth GP surgery & admit I started bawling at the reception desk DRAMA!

I'm empathetic towards the poster nothing worse when your feeling miserable & sick!

WoollyRedHat · 08-02-2013 06:16PM

I went to the doctor n'guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl u better try to have fun
No matter what you'll do
But he's a fool
`Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you

eok56 · 08-02-2013 06:19PM

cuana wrote: »

I had a miserable experience last year! I Hurt my back so fairly new to the area I didn't know of any GP's I struggled to be seen I went to three GP surgery's & refused to see me as I wasn't a registered patient miserable and in agony I thought I can't believe I'm going to have to go to A&E to be seen! To be fair I was properly being brave & overly polite that I needed attention! So eventually I got to the fourth GP surgery & admit I started bawling at the reception desk DRAMA!

I'm empathetic towards the poster nothing worse when your feeling miserable & sick!

Thanks Cuana, felt so bad tuesday when he wouldn't examine me and when I saw him again this morning I was disgusted with myself to become emotional again!
In my case he has been my doctor all my life and knows that I don't go running to the doctor with every sniffle!

AnonoBoy · 08-02-2013 06:20PM

If I'm every in the doctor's and I don't like his attitude I tell him I'm also suffering from piles and insist he examine me.

Shoving a finger up my hole is not an experience that anyone can maintain an 'attitude' throughout.

starlings · 08-02-2013 06:26PM

hmmm, course you want to be taken seriously OP, but there's a difference between doctors taking you seriously and their diagnosis that there's nothing seriously wrong with you.

I crashed my bicycle once, and whacked my chest into the handlebar. It hurt a lot, especially when I took a deep breath to try to calm myself, but I managed to wheel my bike to the nearest hospital so I knew it wasn't the worst injury ever. When the X-Rays came back I had a moment's -ridiculous -disappointment that I hadn't actually broken a bone after all that pain and effort -and the expense. :eek:

OT - they should really let you keep your X-Rays -for your own records and because they're amaaaazing!

Rant..experience at doctor this week!

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