ChatterBank1 min ago
Is It Just An Excuse Now
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For doctors to refuse to see you in person. When you look at all the action shops have taken to erect screens at their checkouts and the more available ppe, also dentists have found a way of operating, why can't doctors see a way of seeing people other than by video, and phone.
The reception areas can be screened off, and even in the room were the doctor is could have a divide, along with PPE I can't justify the continuation of refusal. What's it like in your area? that's if you've tried to get in.
The reception areas can be screened off, and even in the room were the doctor is could have a divide, along with PPE I can't justify the continuation of refusal. What's it like in your area? that's if you've tried to get in.
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I'm afraid that the virus issue is allowing a whole load of businesses and services to introduce "safety" measures that are simply making the business or service unfit for purpose. GPs are no exception. Fortunately I rarely, if ever, go to see my GP. It simply isn't worth the bother. By the time I get an appointment I'd either be dead or recovered. Quite frankly...
13:27 Mon 27th Jul 2020
I had to go to the GP last week for a steroid injection in my knee. They are seeing people who can't be helped by phone or video, so I had to wear a mask, there was nobody else there except the receptionist who was behind a large perspex screen. Nobody in the waiting room, so GP, in full PPE called me straight in.You can phone our surgery before 10.30am and a doctor phones you back and advises what you can do.If you need to be seen but can't go out, they come to you in the full PPE.
Seems sensible to me. If you really need to consult with a doctor you are unwell and more vulnerable. The other patients doctors have to see are also unwell. Far better to consult by phone wherever possible.
My GP has been visiting my very poorly neighbour several times a week, just as he did before lockdown
My GP has been visiting my very poorly neighbour several times a week, just as he did before lockdown
Seems to me that apart from those on the front line treating Covid sufferers large numbers in the NHS have had an easy time of it during the last 3 or 4 months. Of course when the dam bursts & the backlog of cases (probably having got worse than they ought to have) starts to come through there will plaintive cries for more resources & extra funding.
The thing is Barry, doctors and nurses are working in hospitals with far more risk than a local doctors., and however good a doctor you may be, seeing a patient even behind a screen can give you a lot more idea of a patients present condition surely. Their only concern at the beginning of this virus was the lack of PPE, that I can understand, but that's not the case any longer. I now think they should be made to see people now, they've had plenty of time to put the safe guards in place.
The phone appointments are okay if you don't need to be checked over, It is highly frustrating considering how many places have opened that the Doctors is still a no go for personal visits, yes I know they do allow *some* but these are very few and far between. you have to be very ill or at least have some red flag symptoms to be seen at my doctors.