1st GP Review This Morning...feeling apprehensive...

[Pine Marten]

Good grief, @happydog, all I can say is 😱😱😱😡😡 regarding your GP's attitude! I am astonished and appalled - but perhaps not surprised 🙄

 

[Bubbsie]

Good grief, @happydog, all I can say is 😱😱😱😡😡 regarding your GP's attitude! I am astonished and appalled - but perhaps not surprised 🙄

After this morning...neither am I...

 

[mikeyB]

Just goes to show Bubbsie. You get better advice and encouragement on the forum than you do at the surgery, so tell you what. Stick around here, and go and see your GP every now and then to give us all a laugh.

Deal?

PS Well done, keep up the good work🙂

 

[Bubbsie]

Just goes to show Bubbsie. You get better advice and encouragement on the forum than you do at the surgery, so tell you what. Stick around here, and go and see your GP every now and then to give us all a laugh.

Deal?

PS Well done, keep up the good work🙂

Thank you Mikey...I appreciate your comments...and yes I do get better advice and encouragement on the forum than I do at the surgery...I hope to see him as sparingly as possible...I'm not sure he appreciates my approach or sense of humour...when discussing a female matter with him...he immediately said 'lets get you up to the hospital and pop a camera up your &&&&&&' (out of sheer embarrassment) I said 'perhaps we should call the BBC and see if we could get a film crew up there at the same time'... not even a smile...then in response to his next question do you bleed after sex...when I replied 'well actually I prefer to smoke 'again not even a smile!! (is this too ribald for the general forum...will Northerner rebuke me...and move me on) ...not letting him divert me from getting those numbers down...and will pay a lot more attention to the advice I get here than at the surgery...baking now...pounding that dough is so satisfying...and cathartic...can see his face in every fold.

 

[Greyhound Gal]

Never mind your approach or sense of humour (which are great by the way), if he had made those comments to me re cameras etc he'd have got a bloody good slap 😡
Ignore him, as everyone else has said, you are doing great. We all know it, and after all are we not the most important ones 🙂🙄🙂

 

[Bubbsie]

Never mind your approach or sense of humour (which are great by the way), if he had made those comments to me re cameras etc he'd have got a bloody good slap 😡
Ignore him, as everyone else has said, you are doing great. We all know it, and after all are we not the most important ones 🙂🙄🙂

GG I was horrified...Irish Catholic...Convent school...repressed..silly I know...but felt so embarrassed...as said...baking at the moment...so releasing that tension in a positive way...and then another brisk walk with the girls...bless them...they waited for me at the doctors...they could see I was upset...both said 'we don't like him...he's stinky'.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Is yout GP in Bedford? I was born there, but l think all the doctors I saw are either retired or dead.

 

[Greyhound Gal]

Is yout GP in Bedford? I was born there, but l think all the doctors I saw are either retired or dead.

As should this one be by the sound of it...

 

[Amigo]

Your irreverent humour sounds very much like mine Bubbsie but I think my GP appreciates it slightly more than yours.

Once when he was giving me an internal (with the nurse doing the chaperone duty behind him), I asked him if everything looked ok. He said, 'I don't know I haven't got one' to which I replied, 'but you must have seen plenty in magazines'.
He had to hold up the nurse who nearly fell over the treatment table laughing!

Sorry to hear of the utterly cruddy experiences on here though...just shocking! 😡

 

[trophywench]

I think you could well drop your GP a letter. All you need to say is

Hey! - this is a marathon - not a sprint ! - and it's about time you took that on board and encouraged your patients instead of sending them away into the depths of despond with your criticisms. Anyone who wants lessons in patient de-motivation should take lessons from you!

 

[Bubbsie]

Is yout GP in Bedford? I was born there, but l think all the doctors I saw are either retired or dead.

Hi Mark...yes I am in Bedford...only been here three years...previously in London...only registered with them in June when became ill...didn't expect a fanfare...red carpet...or any praise...just a bit of encouragement...thought he might say heading in the right direction...none of that...just lets put you on the maximum dose of Metformin...didn't ask what I was eating...whether I exercise...so discouraging...might have been better off seeing the Vet on our market square.

 

[Owen]

Hi Mark...yes I am in Bedford...only been here three years...previously in London...only registered with them in June when became ill...didn't expect a fanfare...red carpet...or any praise...just a bit of encouragement...thought he might say heading in the right direction...none of that...just lets put you on the maximum dose of Metformin...didn't ask what I was eating...whether I exercise...so discouraging...might have been better off seeing the Vet on our market square.

If you want praise go private, they will bloke smoke anywhere you want if you pay them enough.

 

[Bubbsie]

I think you could well drop your GP a letter. All you need to say is

Hey! - this is a marathon - not a sprint ! - and it's about time you took that on board and encouraged your patients instead of sending them away into the depths of despond with your criticisms. Anyone who wants lessons in patient de-motivation should take lessons from you!

Hi...I am going write to him...and a copy to the practice manager...will mull it over for a day or two...want to think carefully about how to address it...and it will be along the lines you've mentioned...would love to quote you verbatim...but afraid it needs to be a little more formal...don't want to give him any room to manoeuvre...thanks.

 

[Bubbsie]

Your irreverent humour sounds very much like mine Bubbsie but I think my GP appreciates it slightly more than yours.

Once when he was giving me an internal (with the nurse doing the chaperone duty behind him), I asked him if everything looked ok. He said, 'I don't know I haven't got one' to which I replied, 'but you must have seen plenty in magazines'.
He had to hold up the nurse who nearly fell over the treatment table laughing!

Sorry to hear of the utterly cruddy experiences on here though...just shocking! 😡

Only said it to try and break the ice GG...was horrified after I realised what I'd said...although a friend who was with me...laughed like a drain all the way home...quick...give me your GPs' number...will make an appointment...fortunately I managed to avoid his handy work...and got to see the gynaecologist...he's fine...gave him the same response...laughed...seeing him again next week...so hopefully can clear up a few issues then...thanks

 

[Carolg]

Well done bubbsie. I only saw my locum GP last November who did tests, diagnosed and gave me metformin, and a wee thing for diabetes.org etc. Saw him again and he sent me for ct scans as bloods came back dodgy. Saw practice GP once, who was great and only practice nurse since.when I got additional meds, I went back and good results, but put it down to meds. So sHe was nice and made sure that I knew it was also down to what I had done
Hearing your story I feel quite fortunate, but really incennced that you can be treated this way. Scaring and demeaning someone who has tried so hard is unfair. Keep your spirits up, and I think you are right to send a letter and copy in practice manager. Think karma, he'll get his, some day, some way

 

[Bubbsie]

If you want praise go private, they will bloke smoke anywhere you want if you pay them enough.

Owen either you have not understood my reply...or I've misinterpreted your response...I am not wanting praise...just want some indication I am heading in the right direction...and have made some degree progress at least.

 

[Bubbsie]

Well done bubbsie. I only saw my locum GP last November who did tests, diagnosed and gave me metformin, and a wee thing for diabetes.org etc. Saw him again and he sent me for ct scans as bloods came back dodgy. Saw practice GP once, who was great and only practice nurse since.when I got additional meds, I went back and good results, but put it down to meds. So sHe was nice and made sure that I knew it was also down to what I had done
Hearing your story I feel quite fortunate, but really incennced that you can be treated this way. Scaring and demeaning someone who has tried so hard is unfair. Keep your spirits up, and I think you are right to send a letter and copy in practice manager. Think karma, he'll get his, some day, some way

Thanks Carol...he was just a ****...not interested...just about his view...he didn't feel halving my starting total (17.4)to an average of 7.9 in just under three months was positive....or that my blood pressure readings were within normal range sufficient...in fact he didn't want to discuss that...only one thing at a time...thanks

 

[Carolg]

Which one thing? Surely improvements in those areas are all part of the picture. What does he want to paint, a a bl&£?y wall. Can you see another GP next time?

 

[Owen]

Owen either you have not understood my reply...or I've misinterpreted your response...I am not wanting praise...just want some indication I am heading in the right direction...and have made some degree progress at least.

You deserve praise and you must know that you are going in the right direction

 

[Bubbsie]

You deserve praise and you must know that you are going in the right direction

Owen...meant an indication from the blasted GP that I am going in the right direction...still pretty ****ed off with him...more angry about it now...just about to write to him.