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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 929251" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Every issue I have ever had with health care professionals, boils down to a single theme:</p><p></p><p>They don't listen. They don't pick up on clues. They assume I am a lazy, ignorant pig who is eating a stupid diet. They spout the same dogma they have been spouting for decades, without bothering to check whether that dogma has worked for me during those decades. </p><p></p><p>Every general practitioner I have seen has fitted into this bracket, which has included</p><p> - Diagnosing a dislocated ankle as a sprained ankle 'make her walk on it, she is pretending it hurts'</p><p> - Diagnosing a tumour and PCOS as 'fat women don't get periods, come back when you have lost weight'</p><p> - Diagnosing an allergy (to eye makeup) as a <em><strong>squint</strong></em> ***!</p><p> - NOT diagnosing reactive hypoglycaemia, for decades, and dismissing me as some kind of hypochondriac</p><p></p><p>Around me, I have lost a friend to breast cancer 'pregnant women don't get breast cancer, that lump is your milk coming in'</p><p>and seen a friend left for 6 weeks with an untreated broken vertebra 'It's a bad back, no I don't need to examine you, just rest it and take over the counter pain killers. and please don't waste my time with a home visit again, unless it is an emergency.'</p><p></p><p>The flip side is that I have had 3 absolutely splendid HCPs who have profoundly improved the quality of my life.</p><p> - one was a very experienced/highly qualified consultant who was covering a shift in a family planning clinic and who spotted that my hormones were insanely out of wack - after 20 years of doctors ignoring them - which lead to a diagnosis of prolactinoma and PCOS</p><p>- another was an endocrinology registrar, who listened enough to fine tune medication</p><p>- the third was this spring, another endocrinology registrar who listened, understood, and made genuinely helpful comments allowing me to (yet again) improve the quality of my life.</p><p></p><p>As things stand, I will do anything I can to avoid more encounters with my local surgery, yet I happily trot off to the endocrinology clinic to have grown up conversations with people who <em><strong>answer questions, explain their thinking, and look me in the eye</strong></em> while saying things like </p><p> 'You have lost half a stone in a year, that is really impressive for someone with your issues. Well done!'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 929251, member: 41816"] Every issue I have ever had with health care professionals, boils down to a single theme: They don't listen. They don't pick up on clues. They assume I am a lazy, ignorant pig who is eating a stupid diet. They spout the same dogma they have been spouting for decades, without bothering to check whether that dogma has worked for me during those decades. Every general practitioner I have seen has fitted into this bracket, which has included - Diagnosing a dislocated ankle as a sprained ankle 'make her walk on it, she is pretending it hurts' - Diagnosing a tumour and PCOS as 'fat women don't get periods, come back when you have lost weight' - Diagnosing an allergy (to eye makeup) as a [I][B]squint[/B][/I] ***! - NOT diagnosing reactive hypoglycaemia, for decades, and dismissing me as some kind of hypochondriac Around me, I have lost a friend to breast cancer 'pregnant women don't get breast cancer, that lump is your milk coming in' and seen a friend left for 6 weeks with an untreated broken vertebra 'It's a bad back, no I don't need to examine you, just rest it and take over the counter pain killers. and please don't waste my time with a home visit again, unless it is an emergency.' The flip side is that I have had 3 absolutely splendid HCPs who have profoundly improved the quality of my life. - one was a very experienced/highly qualified consultant who was covering a shift in a family planning clinic and who spotted that my hormones were insanely out of wack - after 20 years of doctors ignoring them - which lead to a diagnosis of prolactinoma and PCOS - another was an endocrinology registrar, who listened enough to fine tune medication - the third was this spring, another endocrinology registrar who listened, understood, and made genuinely helpful comments allowing me to (yet again) improve the quality of my life. As things stand, I will do anything I can to avoid more encounters with my local surgery, yet I happily trot off to the endocrinology clinic to have grown up conversations with people who [I][B]answer questions, explain their thinking, and look me in the eye[/B][/I] while saying things like 'You have lost half a stone in a year, that is really impressive for someone with your issues. Well done!' [/QUOTE]
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