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alas, you don't know how the doctors work here I'd guess, lol
it's 100% about *them*, sigh.
Not all docs are rotten gits, but from experience only about 1/3rd are any good
In past 16 years only had one GP who was helpful and decent and he left the area cause of the nitwits in his practice and the local scumbags
His folks, I believe, originally came form Iran or Jordan, nicest guy you could meet, best diagnostician, too, they even filmed him he was that good...but I know he got abuse from lowlifes (I heard it, ugh) , and suspect such as well from his fellow practitioners though with them, less about race and religion perhaps, and more about the fact he took time and care over his patients and had much higher rates of refferals and successful treatments. Such a shame, brilliant doctor
Doctors police themselves here in the UK, they can get away with about anything, hence the world's two biggest mass murderers were both English GPs, most have heard of Harold Shipman, few have heard of John Bodkin Adams though
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams
Some of my experiences, and reasons why I loathe "medical profession" (as a system/group that's pure "Victoriana", not the individuals. The BMA sucks!):
I look after my mum, though now, more a case of looking after each other hehe
So I used to push her about in her wheelchair when she needed to go outside.
My mum was a nurse, long time ago, patient fell, grabbed her by the neck...and broke her back, causing partial paralysis and then severe scarring on the spinal cord from a flourescent X Ray dye they used ot use, now she has COPD and arthritis as well.
so I wheeled her in to see this consultant, my Mum's a damn gutsy, humorous smart old lady, fyi, she ain't no whinger or suffers fools gladly but she is very loving and compassionate as heck, she'd give you her eye teeth if ye were in need.
First civilian female to pass the Strathclyde Police driving test, and she did it in a hand-controlled car!
She had written to his same consultant about my issues and he'd helped with the testosterone...note that, senior consultant doing various fields, he's not a specialist. But he is a very...odd fellow, skilled but...well..."odd". I'm used to dealing with "odd" folks, lol, long as they ain't gits or stupid, who cares.
So, this consultant, kind of laughingly wheels my mum up against the wall and says with a smile "
That's how women should be treated!" thinking it was some kind of joke...
If I had been fit I'd have flattened him on the spot. ME + wheeling mum in = I was sick as a dog as you can imagine. And I was mostly gobsmacked, how the hell could a doctor be so vilely ignorant?
I quickly wheeled my mum back out after the most desultry examination by this ratbag and shook his hand...because we were
even.
He'd helped with the testosterone issue, and thus far as I was concerned, saved my life. Now,we were quits, I won't flatten him but it's "tabula rasa" again. I'm kind of old fashioned about honour. Violence is ugly and despicable, but some folk
need a kick in the pants, sigh
Mum naturally complained to the hospital about his mad behaviour...and nothing came of it, even with me as witness.
This is par for the course because with the profession, it's ALL about appearances, and their precious reputation, as it always is with all organizations, see US government vs Assange and the Vatican vs the molested kids etc
always ALWAYS the same, organizations put their reputation over everything, their ethos, morals none of it matters.
So in UK if a doctor is caught having sex with a patient, WHAM! down on him like a ton of bricks. Or if he exposes corruption and dangerous practices where money is being made (Wakefield for example, and note how the UK's equivalent of the FDA for drugs, was paid DIRECTLY by the pharma corps!! yeesh)
But otherwise, they can get away with murder, literally, long as it doesn't look too bad they "scratch each others backs". See Shipman and Bodkin Adams.
Another of the many such things to happen to me and mine:
I've put on a lot of weight since I got ME, I can't do much exercise, but haven't lost my appetite thankfully, I'd rather be fat than feel nausious/seriously underweight like many do (testosterone injections helped a lot, also increased appetite and stopped the terrible violent "dry heaves" I'd get at random, ugh hated those, trying not to puke over your Mum as you wheel her into the doctors is not
not fun)
So doc says I need ot lose weight, fair enough, but as I tried to explain to him, it's not that damn easy when you've got ME. I used ot do weight training, martial arts and very long walks all the time, I can't do that now. He says it's just a matter of lowering calorie intake "
There were no fat folk in Belsen!"
he actually said that. He also said afterwards
"Oops! I shouldn't have said that, another doc got in trouble for it" Oh, no bloody kidding, Sherlock, WTH do you expect?!
Now, he's a darkly humorous guy, I love dark and ironic humour myself at times, but not when I'm sick, looking for help. I don't
think the guy is an anti-Semite, but it shows the level of behaviour/thinking that goes on in their practice.
Since my great Uncle was one of the guys who was in the unit that liberated that concentration camp, and I knew and loved him, and saw what those experiences had done to him...I was not at all happy.
I pointed out, later to that idiot GP, that there was ineed, at least one fat person in that concentration camp, she was a Jewish doctor the SS scum left alive to treat the folk in the camp. that poor lady survived, but must have suffered dreadfully.
and other stuff docs have dine, including first two GPs I saw about my ME did *nothing* for me and I found out later they'd publicly said they didn't believe ME was real
and some of the stupid/wicked stuff my Mum saw as a nurse back in the day...ye gods. She went ballistic on another nurse who had BLOWN down an intravenous tube to "clean it" and then left bubbles in it, and this...moron...was sitting there watching the bubbles go down the line, the patient paralyzed unable to shout for help, watching the bubbles get closer and closer...
So mum took off the line and yelled at the idiot if she was having fun re-creating the nazi's experiments on her ward?!
Jebuz.
and please note, this is not the fault of the "NHS", it's
not because it's the "British system", I could tell you some beauts from American relatives' experiences in their own country about medical screw ups and arrogance, too!
just the very bad attitudes organizations cause, especially as it seems the Medical Establishment, mostly in UK, USA maybe Holland too? has very ludicrous Victorian attitudes, including rank incompetance, racism, sexism and simple bloody sadism :/
Like that video on youtube, female doctor talking about ME, interviews a neurologist and this smug complacent mysogenistic twerp laughing as he basically says as much that ME is hysteria caused by menopusal women not getting enough sex...
is being a smug retard an essential part of getting an MD, eh?
anyway, on OP, I've saw a few folk state the NHS at least in England, has an official, but secret policy of preventing follow up MRI scans, or exploratory/follow up SPECT scans on ME patients
if we could find this to be true, it would be a major part of serious litigation, as doing that on a neurological disease is a serious issue of gross bigotry and heinous wrong doing.
