pavmas said:
I went for my yearly check at the local hospital, I was not feeling well but they are not to happy at canceling appointments at short notice so I attended, I was in getting an eye test and I felt funny and was ready to pass out I ended up dizzy on the floor and it was decided by the staff not to carry the full medical out Eyes, feet, blood, urine etc. So they sent a letter to my GP saying he would need to take my blood. The practice nurse brought up my file and it said Refused/Declined treatment. Why would they right this when the truth was I was just to unwell and they decided not to carry on.
Sorry to tell you this, but hospitals do sometimes lie. We only have to look at the news to realise that, although we don't perhaps want to accept it. That's why I ask for copies of my clinic letters.
I suspect in your case either a box was ticked or the person completing your notes couldn't be bothered writing "Patient too ill for tests to be performed" or they couldn't be bothered to explain why they felt they couldn't perform the tests. It looks better for them to say the patient refused or declined treatment. If you had complained afterwards, that would be their recorded reason for you not having your allotted tests.
There have also been instances where doctors have misheard something a patient has said, the misinformation then goes down in their notes and in the clinic letter to the patient's GP and turns into Chinese Whispers - and the sad and dangerous thing is, the patient has no idea what's happened and has no opportunity to correct it.
If what happened to you had happened to me, I'd write a letter to the PALS Department of the hospital in question asking for the reason this error occurred and asking them to put the matter right. I'd copy the GP into that letter too.
As far as I know the NHS is the only large organisation which makes very personal notes about people, but doesn't show them to the person and ask them to sign them as being accurate. We just blindly cooperate with them because that's what we've always done and we've been led to believe that the medical profession is infallible and beyond reproach.