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Post by rhaegyr on Apr 18, 2024 12:25:15 GMT
I've had a mix of good and bad.
Sorta feel for them - the amount of times I've seen people give them an absolute TON of shit for something outside their control and what's likely close to minimum wage is huge. I used to work retail but never had to deal with the kind of grief they do.
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Post by Dougs on Apr 18, 2024 13:50:15 GMT
Kind of my view too. Some do get a bit power hungry but mostly they're fine.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 18, 2024 15:46:08 GMT
I think every single time I've gone to our doctors, there's been at least one person in the queue giving them grief. I'd probably last a week in that job before I had a mental breakdown.
They've always been nice to me even straight after talking to an irate customer, so fair play to them imo.
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Post by Lukus on Apr 18, 2024 16:30:45 GMT
You guys have been lucky then. Mine have been exclusively miserable and incompetent. I always start cheerily and politely but it's never reciprocated.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 18, 2024 17:40:25 GMT
There was a period where I just didn't want to go into our local surgery or speak to them on the phone because the new receptionist was somebody I'd worked with for nine years and was still friendly with, and I simply didn't want to tell her the details of my medical issues.
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 19, 2024 9:22:11 GMT
Necksticle update:
Test results confirm that much like the rest of me, it's a random, harmless lump.
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 19, 2024 11:26:19 GMT
Back update:
Still fucked. Doctor refused my prescription request for more tramadol, have an appointment on 2nd May to discuss why I want painkillers. Er, because I'm in pain you fuckwits.
I have made an appointment with a chiropractor for 29th April (happy 50th me) that my boss is insisting I have and he's paying for.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Apr 19, 2024 13:28:44 GMT
They want to avoid you buying them of the streets by not prescribing you any.
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 19, 2024 14:50:50 GMT
I've put in a request for some prescription strength co-codamol instead. If that fails then it will be over the counter strength and if they still dick me about then it will be aspirin (which they can't refuse because I have been prescribed it, but I choose to buy myself because its a couple of quid for 100).
If they're going to waste my time, I'm going to waste theirs.
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 19, 2024 14:52:43 GMT
Me? Petty? Never.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Apr 19, 2024 15:02:40 GMT
Rather comically, even my Type 1 Diabetic son is subject to a "medicine review" every 5-6 dispenses.
I ring up to get his repeat prescription renewed and they tell me we have to see a doctor for the "review". I point out that he has a life long condition and unless the NHS has developed a cure for Type 1 diabetes in the last 24 hours that I don't know about we still need the insulin, what else can possibly result from a review other than "yes, he still needs that!".
The doctor's appointment is genuinely hilarious.
After nearly three years they've finally agreed more recently that it's stupid and now just renew all that crap automatically, although I suspect it was more because I was driving them mad than the fact they've actually seen sense.
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 19, 2024 15:05:38 GMT
I wouldn't care but the receptionist even stated that I last ordered them in December 2022, so I'm hardly abusing them.
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Post by mrpon on Apr 19, 2024 15:07:34 GMT
I have made an appointment with a chiropractor for 29th April (happy 50th me) that my boss is insisting I have and he's paying for. I might as well.
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Post by drakesmoke on Apr 19, 2024 20:31:50 GMT
F*cked my knee today after doing many thousands more steps than usual at Alton Towers. Right towards the end of the day when we were making our way out.
Seems to be a bit of a recurring injury that is always caused by days out with lots of walking - a crunchy stab in the left knee but at the side rather than the back. Tolerable on the flat but it makes any stairs or steps VERY difficult. Hopefully can heal it back a bit over the weekend. Any other really inactive people have injuries like this they thing should by rights only be caused by sports?
It must change my gait too as my right leg started tightening up behind the knee and the hamstring a bit - compensation I reckon.
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Post by drakesmoke on Apr 19, 2024 20:35:47 GMT
I've put in a request for some prescription strength co-codamol instead. If that fails then it will be over the counter strength and if they still dick me about then it will be aspirin (which they can't refuse because I have been prescribed it, but I choose to buy myself because its a couple of quid for 100). If they're going to waste my time, I'm going to waste theirs. Cuprofen are alright for over the counter strength, Naproxen better but you need a prescription again (it is just a really strong NSAID though) but I *think* you can ask for it at the counter as a menstrual cramp counter under a brand name! Hope you get the good stuff.
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Post by drakesmoke on Apr 23, 2024 13:49:20 GMT
The dance of psychopathy with the GP reception. They just do not want to see me. It’s no wonder people die of preventable stuff (nothing like that in this case thankfully) (I hope).
‘There’s no appointments until May now, you need to ring at 8 am.’
‘OK can I just have one in May please?’
‘No you have to ring at 8 am.’
‘Just to clarify, as I don’t use the doctor much, is there a date in May I need to ring at 8 am?’
‘No ring tomorrow and we might be able to see you’.
‘You just said no appointment until May though? Can’t I just book for tomorrow now then, ringing at 8 am will be challenging tomorrow’.
‘No, fuck off and die, kthxbai’
All the while my ear is FUCKING TICKING AWAY LIKE A CUNT
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Post by JonFE on Apr 23, 2024 13:56:07 GMT
drakesmoke If didn't know any better, I'd assume they would rather have you checked by a private doctor! That can't be right, RIGHT?
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Post by drakesmoke on Apr 23, 2024 14:03:36 GMT
drakesmoke If didn't know any better, I'd assume they would rather have you checked by a private doctor! That can't be right, RIGHT? Just looked into it. Would mean being down £79 and taking half a day off to travel into Manchester centre and back. If I can claim it back from work I may just do it yet. I’ve put absolutely everything conceivable* down this ear to try and relieve it and nothing is working. *No, not that
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Post by Dougs on Apr 23, 2024 14:07:32 GMT
That's just the way they all work though, isn't it? Certainly is at mine. That's the game - have to ring at 8am, hopefully get an appointment (what time depends on the urgency) and then once you're in, you can make future follow up appointments further ahead. You basically have to play the game and pretend that you need to see someone right away.
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Post by Binky on Apr 23, 2024 14:14:28 GMT
Yup, basically if you want to see a GP you have to pretend it's urgent at 8am on the day else you've got no chance. Makes you feel rotten for taking up a space from someone that may actually need it as a matter of urgency but apparently it's a dog eat old person world.
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Post by drakesmoke on Apr 23, 2024 14:23:30 GMT
Genuinely don’t know how to spin it in that way though. It doesn’t hurt, it’s just completely affecting my quality of life. Guess I could say I’m facing a mental health crisis or something, or just present with a lie that I think I’ve found something suspicious, but I just want to talk to a grownup and be treated like one and ideally not resort to untruths.
I’ve booked a phone consult. As I need my ear canal looking at my hope is that they simply book me an appointment as a follow up.
If they make me do the 8pm dance after that, I’ll have to go private and put a complaint in which will be hand waved I guess.
There’s also some AI thing the NHS app offers with them but that’s not available for undisclosed reasons.
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Post by harrypalmer on Apr 23, 2024 14:27:58 GMT
You have spiders living in your ear, it's not rocket science.
Have you tried one of those GP apps? You do have to pay for an appointment and obviously they can't examine you, but mine was able to book me in with a specialist.
Sounds shit though. I would imagine it will be quite straightforward to get the spiders out once you actually get an appointment.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Apr 23, 2024 14:40:34 GMT
Same at ours.
Ring at 8:30am on the dot, to find you're already in an absurdly long queue, which before now has taken nearly 2 hours to get through, after which you might not get an appointment anyway. Repeat every morning until you see someone.
It's like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets.
Like Binky says also, there's a layer of guilt there if it's not something that's killing you, because you know full well some poor sod who's properly ill failed to get through on the switchboard roulette at 8:30am.
There's literally no other way to get an appointment at ours. Even if it's a follow up with a specific doctor that you've been told to book, you have to play the 8:30am game again and hope that doctor has some slots left, repeat and rinse if not.
Our surgery used to do a walk-in clinic. As long as you were there by 10am you'd be seen that day. Obviously the wait time could be pretty epic at times, but you got seen. Was also a walk-in clinic to see a nurse for less serious stuff. And you could book appointments, etc, etc.
They started stripping all that back years ago though, then once COVID hit all that was left was the above.
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Post by Vortex on Apr 23, 2024 14:42:06 GMT
Brain spiders are the *worst*.
Ick.
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Post by drakesmoke on Apr 23, 2024 14:54:14 GMT
If it genuinely is a spider, it must be due a letter from the king soon, I’m sure this has been since about 12th April and it’s still not dead.
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Post by A46Matt on Apr 23, 2024 14:56:57 GMT
Seeing making a complaint being mentioned, my Mrs submitted a complaint a few months back after the dr refused to treat her due to her being heavily pregnant. The complaint was investigated by and responded to by the very same dr the complaint was against, who surprisingly said there was no grounds to complain and accused her of being a pill junkie. Total joke, nice and impartial process there.
She just had a chest infection as the pregnancy had brought on some breathing/asthma issues. We had to spend the evening up A&E to see someone else who prescribed antibiotics and submitted their own complaint against the dr for refusing to treat someone with a genuine need. Just what you need at 39 weeks pregnant is to be in A&E waiting room for over 4 hours when the dr should have just done her job.
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Post by drakesmoke on Apr 23, 2024 15:05:59 GMT
Happy to hear of that. It takes me a *lot* of steeling to visit the doctor so roadblocks will probably end up killing me.
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Post by Reviewer on Apr 23, 2024 16:18:12 GMT
You can't even phone at ours any more. You have to log it online then they phone you back when they get around to it.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 23, 2024 16:38:23 GMT
See if your surgery's website has an econsult form you can use. That always seems to be more efficient than going through reception.
Of course they might just tell you to fuck off and make an appointment with reception... It's also usually only available during surgery opening hours, which seems daft at first, but then you remember that people are fucking idiots and would probably open a request at 6pm to say they've nicked an artery and then wait for a response.
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Post by cubby on Apr 23, 2024 18:21:01 GMT
Wait you guys have a GP?
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