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NHS Doctors Rant!!!

Sirzy

Sirzy

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Location
Glasgow
Type of diabetes
Other
Treatment type
Insulin
Aaaaahhhh, why does every trip to the hospital end with me soo angry, frustrated and in tears??!!

I've just been to see a consultant about an unrelated problem, but the subject of my diabetes came up, first of all he thought I'd made it up, I have a rare form called MIDD (Mitochondrially Inherited Diabetes and Deafness), he couldn't find it on my medical records (not my fault) and only believed it was a real condition after googling it! He spoke down to me in the most condescending voice ever, and every time I tried to tell him something he would say 'oh well, you must no best' in a really patronizing voice. I wouldn't mind, but I have three biological science degrees and my boyfriend, who came in with me, does too, and he still spoke to us as if we were little children!!

When I told him I couldn't eat cereal for breakfast because it sent my BG into double figures, he said, it can't do that, and when I told him that I've tried it several times and tested afterwards with my meter, he told me point blank that it wasn't possible and that cereal is GOOD for diabetes, seriously??!! He then said, of course if you're eating sugar puffs for breakfast then it will raise your BG. I'M A DIABETIC, WHY WOULD I EVEN CONTEMPLATE EATING SUGAR PUFFS???!! I despair of our health system sometimes, I really do think I'm much better educated about health issues than many off our so called health professionals, their knowledge seems scarily dated, it's worrying, and I always end up so upset after these bloody appointments. I thought I'd learned by now that most doctors are pretty clueless, but I still let them make me feel like this. I ended up having a panic attack at home afterwards because I was so upset, I wish I could grow a thicker skin, but it's upsetting when the people who are there to help, treat patients like this.

I'm so sorry for the rant, but I had to vent or I thought I'd explode :(
 
Bless you. Rant away. I know exactly how you are feeling as after an appointment with a HCA last month. I told her something that I needed help with & it's resulted in me being "removed" from their patients list, & now no GP service!!

Considering you saw a consultant you would have thought as they weren't a diabetes specialist, they might have engaged their brain before opening their mouth!

Having a rare version of diabetes must be really hard, both dealing with it daily & having to cope with idiots (sorry, uninformed consultants) like them. But you "know" your diabetes better than any doctor/GP/consultant ever will.

Chin up huni. Keep calm & carry on~it's all we can do

Hugs Smartie xx
 
Thanks smartlady :) What on earth happened for them to take you off their patient list if you were asking for help?

Sigh, I just hate having to educate doctors about my condition EVERY TIME I go to see one. I had and ENT call my MIDD your 'blah, blah, blah, whatever disease'. It's not exactly professional. Even when I go to the diabetes clinic, if I don't see the consultant who diagnosed me (he's the only dr I trust as he's really clued up on the latest research), I have to teach them what MIDD is, tell them how it's genetically transmitted and what the symptoms are. Surely that's their job!! It's just starting to frustrate me that they don't know that MIDD causes lots of different symptoms (as does diabetes generally), and they don't seem to be able to connect these things via the different medical departments, which ends up with me looking like a hypochondriac, and going along to my GP with yet another ailment, when in fact it's just the MIDD again.

Sorry, I'm ranting again. Thanks for the hugs Smartie, I needed them :)
 
No problem with the ranting huni. as you say some days if you don't, you might just explode, (eww messy lol)

Always happy to hug~we all need them sometimes

Smartie xx .
 
It's good to rant sometimes:mad: I used to think quite highly of the medical profession, but over the years it has declined somewhat:doctor:.

Sometimes I think a troop of Baboons would do a better job ( and throw in some entertainment to boot):rolleyes:

Take care
 
To be honest I think I would have walked out the Consultant's Room after a polite f##k off lol :wacky:
 
I was very tempted to just get up and leave, but I imagine that that's exactly what he wanted, then he wouldn't have to deal with me anymore!

I totally agree RRB, I've lost all respect for doctors over the past few years, I tend to just see my appointments as hoops I need to jump through and don't believe most of the nonsense they spout anymore.

LOL! I'd trust a baboons medical knowledge much more than this blokes! What a farce, I'm having a glass of wine and feeling a lot calmer now, thanks for cheering me up everyone :) I really do need to grow a thicker skin, but I'm a sensitive soul, and why should I have to change just because someone else is a condescending idiot! Whoops, getting wound up again, quick more wine!
 
I'm afraid many see HCPs as super-human people who are total experts. In my engineering profession I soon learned that there is a complete spectrum of 'expert' engineers and this must also apply to HCPs. The health profession does not allow enough time to keep up with skills and some of the training is given by non-experts perpetuating the ignorance.
 
I feel for you. Not familiar with MIDD myself, but **** sure a panic attack would not help your situation. All the best :)
 
Sirzy, I understand your rant – and good for you that you have a better knowledge about your condition than that condescending <choose any expletives of your choice here!> consultant.

I will always say that not all doctors graduated top of their class and certainly there needs be some doctors out there who only scraped through at the very bottom and barely made it before they were foisted on unsuspecting patients... But – alas - they need not post this information ...

annelise
 
Hi Sirzy,

Take a deep breath and accept that you will probably always know more about controlling diabetes and MIDD than most (OK pretty much all!) of the health care professionals you will meet.

I can totally understand your frustration, I have come across some right muppets who treat me like an idiot ( I have a couple of science degrees, doctorate and specialism in dermatology).

You are lucky you were properly diagnosed with MIDD, so few consultants in UK, friend has two daughters with condition, one of who is a nurse and she gets treated like an clueless idiot too and rants about it to her mum :mad:
 
Trust me I know EXACTLY how you feel!

I go through the same think when I go to my gp practice regarding my neurological disorder called small fiber neuropathy.

I've had to fight to even to get a proper diagnosis, as I've been treated like I'm an attention seeking hysterical female, and it's all in my head!

Saw the locum last wk and she admitted she didnt know what it ws - and her reasoning was that she is a general practioner and cannot be expected to know!

Er you train 6yrs to be a DOCTOR, not a plumber, a DOCTOR, and you get paid a pretty penny of min £60,000 a yr - so you should know!

How can I get the appropriate treatment if you dont know what I've got!

And the stuff they ARE supposed to know about such as diabetes, they cant make their minds up whether I've got diabetes or not!

Utter joke!!!
 
it is frustrating how you must feel, that discussion with the consultant was just wrong in a lot of ways...
 
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Reminds me of my consultant saying about his mentor and how he wouldn't have diagnosed my condition and that the treatment would have been exacerbated by his recommendations for treatment. My consultant is very good.
 
I believe the problem with a many so called experts in many different fields is that they have an exaggerated idea of their own cleverness and importance but are also basically insecure so they have to "show off" their apparent knowledge and skill. Those who are truly knowledgeable don't need to put on this act - they can often be quite humble in fact - and are willing to be educated further when required...

Noli illegitimi carborundum!

Robbity
 
seaspray1998 said:
Saw the locum last wk and she admitted she didnt know what it ws - and her reasoning was that she is a general practioner and cannot be expected to know!

Er you train 6yrs to be a DOCTOR, not a plumber, a DOCTOR, and you get paid a pretty penny of min £60,000 a yr - so you should know!

How can I get the appropriate treatment if you dont know what I've got!

And the stuff they ARE supposed to know about such as diabetes, they cant make their minds up whether I've got diabetes or not!

Utter joke!!!
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If everyone on this forum got together and made a list of everything physical (or mental) they have ever been concerned about, removed all the duplicates and further thinned the list down to only those things we sought medical advice on, I doubt there is any one single Doctor in existence who could diagnose everything. To train someone to do that would take more years than possible.

They are General Practitioners and like a plumber they need to go through a process to diagnose the problem. Even plumbers will, on occasions, scratch their **** and say "I have no idea what's wrong" and just replace the area the problem is in. Through experience they learn and have a higher diagnosis rate but will never be able to catch everything.

As an example, last year my 15yr old, fit and healthy, daughter was rushed to hospital with what, the paramedics were convinced, was a stroke. After all the scans and tests the consultant could not say that it was a stroke. She could not say for certain what it was and why it happened. It was referred to one of the best neuro's in the country and, again, no diagnosis.

Before dismissing GP's as a joke when they are uncertain remember that they, on a daily basis, catch things that save lives or prevent suffering and like the rest of us are human.
 
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