Cholesterol -statins- high ldl

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I finally assented to the pressure from administrators and filled the prescription. I did not want to be labeled “against medical advice” or be possibly shown the door.

I’ve never taken a single pill and will not ever.

Hi, I totally understand you’re not wanting to be shown the door ... although they do say as one door closes another one opens and you might just find that another GP is more enlightened. Or perhaps leaving before being shown the door... I have already booked myself a new appointment with a different diabetes specialist in a different hospital for next month, I know that there is no point in having a doctor patient relationship with this man and I always try to avoid conflict and confrontation. I’d rather start afresh.

But taking about being shown the door ... I was struck off from my GP practice age 19!
My mum ordered a repeat prescription for me ... my own GP was on holiday at the time, so another doctor at the practice wrote it. My mum collected the insulin from the chemist and put it into the fridge. I was due to go back to uni on the train that evening. Thank goodness I checked it, and didn’t just put it into my bag, the doctor had given me two types of fast acting insulin and no long acting. We immediately called the chemist who confirmed that the script was written for two different brands of rapid insulin and told me to come straight back to his pharmacy with them. He called the surgery and unable to speak to the doctor in question told the receptionist what had happened and told him that he was sending me into the surgery to change the prescription to the correct insulin.
When I arrived, I was treated terribly as if the mixup was my fault and the GP wouldn’t see me or write a new prescription. It was dreadful.
I don’t like scenes at all and I was the victim of terrible verbal abuse by the receptionist. I ran back to the chemist in tears not knowing what I was supposed to do... Luckily our chemist was a lovely man who’d known our family forever, and he let me “borrow” some long acting insulin to take to uni and gave me one of short acting insulin from the script.
He said he’d sort it all out at the surgery.
I was so relieved and armed with both insulins headed back to uni on the train. I thought that I had been lucky ... what if I had just automatically taken the insulin thinking it was long acting and not looked closely? A 10 unit fast acting injection before going to sleep would have meant I could have died of a diabetic coma in the night and no one would have known as I lived in a hall of residence, so not until I didn’t turn up for lectures that morning would my friends have started to worry. We didn’t have mobile phones in those days! I looked on the bright side, I’d spotted the mistake so all’s well that ends well.
However, a couple of days later my mum rang to tell me that I had been struck off for unreasonable behaviour. And not only me, the whole family had been struck off too, which was weird as I was the only member of my family to go to that surgery.
Being struck off for unreasonable behaviour is on my medical record, which makes me very cross indeed. I have no idea what he wrote. I never met the doctor in question.
My parents did want to do something about it but I preferred to find doctors who acknowledged their mistakes and put them right. Like I said I hate disputes.
The doctor in question was, after numerous other patient complaints, eventually forced to leave the surgery.
After this unfortunate episode I found a wonderful GP in another surgery. She eventually left general practice after 20 years to work full time in casualty. She was a wonderful woman and an exceptional GP.
That was my other door opening