Your sory ac , reminds me of my daughter's recent experiences with privae medicine. She was very concerned about her condition
and had arrived home from working abrod and within a couple of days had to be off to a very stressful temporary job in a different part of the country. While she as doing his job she was also having to look for a permanet job for when she finished .
She has had health issues for over a year and has spent a fortune on privae medicin eabroad trying to resolve the issue quickly/
It wasn't settled when she came back but she had a form of private insurance here. Even trying to arrange treatment through this was a nighmare in the circumstances . In the end she had to have surgery but I felt he surgeon rushed ino hings because of the circumstances and probably at her request. She is now regretting the haste although she has now started a new job.
I am no suggesing that you oughtn't o have had your vitrectomy but just that I don't think that hase is always the best policy and hat surgeons nd consultnts when seen privaely will try to give the client what they ask for which might not always be th e wisest thing.
its strange how people can see others so diffferently. I never recognised the MR C you described in the beginnig as the same man who has been teating me for five years. I assumed that because you saw him privately there was a difference.
While I haven't always seen eye to eye ith him {ouch} I usually found that was because he was looking after my interests but protocol forbade him to explain it all to me.
I certainly don't recognise the Mr C you desribed above today. I have seen and heard him dealing with exremely difficult siuations and people calmly and professionally . and with great patince and forebearance. Unlike some other surgeons .
I suppose it is very differen when you see someone in the circunmsances you saw him. You will have had little opporunity to witness his behaviour to others.
I suppose that the real point of paying privaely is to ge a sppedy diagnosis and to have procedures performed more quickly than hey mihgt be on the NHS.
IThis is fine of course , but apart from the private room etc i didn't notice much difference in the care my daughter received and there was a definite lack of pesonal ineres from the consultant who just seemed to have domne what she asked and wasn't too fussed about the outcome.
The only thing which my limited private insurance would have covered was my caracts op but MR C promised to do his best to be there for me for that - nad he was . That for me was preferable to going to a different hospital to be operated on by an unknown surgeon as would have happened. I could dispense wih the frills.
Its swings and roundabouts really isn't it? If you have a condition which is likely to be long term and you find someone you can trust it is better to stijk with them.
My daughter offered o pay for me o see MR C privately to discuss my current problems in detail but I refused because i don't hink that would make any difference at all. Possibly a few years ago , I might have felt it to be a good idea. I suppose I am now more reconciled o the fact that noone knows all the answers as it is differen for all of us.
I hope your retinal tear does not cause you oo many problems and that you can achieve some peace of mind. Difficul I know.
I am always so sorry for hose who have had to batle wih diabees from youth or childhood.
and had arrived home from working abrod and within a couple of days had to be off to a very stressful temporary job in a different part of the country. While she as doing his job she was also having to look for a permanet job for when she finished .
She has had health issues for over a year and has spent a fortune on privae medicin eabroad trying to resolve the issue quickly/
It wasn't settled when she came back but she had a form of private insurance here. Even trying to arrange treatment through this was a nighmare in the circumstances . In the end she had to have surgery but I felt he surgeon rushed ino hings because of the circumstances and probably at her request. She is now regretting the haste although she has now started a new job.
I am no suggesing that you oughtn't o have had your vitrectomy but just that I don't think that hase is always the best policy and hat surgeons nd consultnts when seen privaely will try to give the client what they ask for which might not always be th e wisest thing.
its strange how people can see others so diffferently. I never recognised the MR C you described in the beginnig as the same man who has been teating me for five years. I assumed that because you saw him privately there was a difference.
While I haven't always seen eye to eye ith him {ouch} I usually found that was because he was looking after my interests but protocol forbade him to explain it all to me.
I certainly don't recognise the Mr C you desribed above today. I have seen and heard him dealing with exremely difficult siuations and people calmly and professionally . and with great patince and forebearance. Unlike some other surgeons .
I suppose it is very differen when you see someone in the circunmsances you saw him. You will have had little opporunity to witness his behaviour to others.
I suppose that the real point of paying privaely is to ge a sppedy diagnosis and to have procedures performed more quickly than hey mihgt be on the NHS.
IThis is fine of course , but apart from the private room etc i didn't notice much difference in the care my daughter received and there was a definite lack of pesonal ineres from the consultant who just seemed to have domne what she asked and wasn't too fussed about the outcome.
The only thing which my limited private insurance would have covered was my caracts op but MR C promised to do his best to be there for me for that - nad he was . That for me was preferable to going to a different hospital to be operated on by an unknown surgeon as would have happened. I could dispense wih the frills.
Its swings and roundabouts really isn't it? If you have a condition which is likely to be long term and you find someone you can trust it is better to stijk with them.
My daughter offered o pay for me o see MR C privately to discuss my current problems in detail but I refused because i don't hink that would make any difference at all. Possibly a few years ago , I might have felt it to be a good idea. I suppose I am now more reconciled o the fact that noone knows all the answers as it is differen for all of us.
I hope your retinal tear does not cause you oo many problems and that you can achieve some peace of mind. Difficul I know.
I am always so sorry for hose who have had to batle wih diabees from youth or childhood.
