An Update For Sqad, Slaney And Whoever.....

[gness]

Evening....I woke up almost completely deaf this morning so I saw another GP.....

He is one I like and trust but a little confirmation never hurts....

I have no wax and very shiny eardrums which would suggest not glue ear. He did lots of tests with a tuning fork and...because he doesn't do this often got out a reference book.....I like that.

The results of the tuning fork pinging told him the problem was conductive and not a nerve problem......I like that too....well conductive seems the better of the two.

He has referred me to E.N.T. ....bypassing audiology if another doctor in the practice agrees....there have to be two signatures for this referral. If a second doctor won't agree I have to go to audiology....that seems to be the usual route.... who will then refer me to E.N.T.

Seems a faff to me...but heyho....I'm used to faff now.....☺

Am I on the right track do you both think?

Thanks Gx

[gness]

Oh, Lord.....:-(

[LazyGun]

You can criticize individuals and its workings and examples of poor treatment all you like for me, Sqad. What one cannot do is to automatically offer those examples as exemplars of systemic failure or fault with the philosophy of the NHS itself, which you are prone to do.

Every single health system the world over will have examples of shoddy or poor care, or malfeasance or downright incompetence, and that goes for the NHS too. Does not invalidate the system.

[Sqad]

LG....I was waiting for that reply........it is always used and is getting a bit frail around the edges.

Here we have medical ideology implanted some 60 years ago an not to be criticise..... no help for a patient who is in need of URGENT medical attention and it being denied.......by the "Envy of the World."

[LazyGun]

"LG....I was waiting for that reply........it is always used and is getting a bit frail around the edges.

Here we have medical ideology implanted some 60 years ago an not to be criticise..... no help for a patient who is in need of URGENT medical attention and it being denied.......by the "Envy of the World."

How- prescient - of you. Point me to any healthcare system of your choice in the world and show me one where mistakes or poor/shoddy practice never ever happens.
Then tell us exactly how the philosophy of the NHS means that gness has to endure poor treatment?

What is that? You cannot? Ahh.... thought so.

[Sqad]

LG...just as I imagined....you ask the question, then answer it in your own way before you have given me the decency to offer an answer.

Plus i8 do not think that this is the thread to enter into Statev Private medicine.

[LazyGun]

@Sqad - You are right, it is not - but you were the one who introduced it, just like you do every time we get a story of alleged medical malfeasance or poor care.

[jim360]

It may not be typical of the NHS as a whole. Or perhaps it is... it's well-known that the waiting list for referral to an NHS-based counselling service is measured in months. Fat lot of good that is when you're depressed and in serious need of help NOW.

Up to a point I don't care if this is typical or not. It's happening to a friend, I'm therefore annoyed.

[237SJ]

"...and show me one where mistakes or poor/shoddy practice never ever happens" It`s not so much that it happens, but the frequency with which it happens. In the last few months with my mum I have had to challenge the oncologist as to why she was going to leave a gap of 7 weeks without any anti-cancer drugs, challenge a letter for an appointment whereby the letter was dated the same day as the appointment (and nobody noticed), challenge why another appointment for May was dated May 2015 and challenge why my mother slipped through the net without any progress tests thus resulting in progession of the disease. The amount of admin errors are staggering in the NHS.