Crap dr or what

[jordigirl]

did he do no other exmainations - ie. listen to your chest? check your temperature?? look in your mouth ??

maybe he thought it was hayfever ( about correct time of year ) and your symtoms are quite universal to a lot of conditions?

maybe he should have spent more time on you and better diagnosis, but maybe some of the syptoms didn't show up till later -

they are only human like rest of us -
get well soon

[Lainie]

sorry not been on for a bit. how are you doing now?

did you speak to hosp doc to see if gp should have done more?

[skywash]

when i had my 1st heart attack hospital kept me in all day then said bad indigestion you can go home....year later driving to work ouch pain in chest go to dr he takes blood sent to different hospital 2nd attack..but they wouldnt diss other hospital just said easy to miss ffs best to change dr if it bothers you other than that m8 just concentrate on getting better all the best

[alec]

Went to my doctor last Tuesday because I was having a bit of a problem with breathing, just getting short of breath at work, I do a physical job.

Dr looked up my nostrils and said they were blocked, and prescribed some spray to sort the problem.
While there he said he would check my blood pressure, reading 204 should be about 90 upto 115, I did not know this at the time. So he prescribed a weak amount of blood pressure pills, and said book a ECG and blood test at reception. Got booking for end of month,

That night while cleaning my teeth I could not get my breath and got the wife to call an ambulance, which came. At this point blood pressure was 275, so put on oxygen and rushed to hospital and wired up.

Still in hospital now. All due to chest infection, which put strain on my heart, which caused a heart attack.

Should be out in day or so, just get blood pressure steady.

Should doctor have sent me straight to hospital? Should I sue?

I think a normal blood pressure resting should be a round 80 and 120. If you are resting and it is over 200 the alarms bells should be ringing. Most Doctors I have come across in the UK are a waste of space, and I don't think you stand a chance of suing him. To put in simple terms if you were a private patient, and had a competent doctor, he would have called an ambulance.

[GastonJ]

I think a normal blood pressure resting should be a round 80 and 120. If you are resting and it is over 200 the alarms bells should be ringing. Most Doctors I have come across in the UK are a waste of space, and I don't think you stand a chance of suing him. To put in simple terms if you were a private patient, and had a competent doctor, he would have called an ambulance.

Of course a doctor with you as a private patient would have done that, you're paying him/her and it costs him/her nothing to pack you off to hospital because the NHS pay - even if there is nothing wrong, he/her has already got their fee. The doctors are no different whether private or NHS, they can only best estimate anyone's internal workings at the end of the day. The difference being that seeing a doctor as a private patient is that the doctor is making more money and the NHS still pays. That's why I disagree with private hospitals. They take you in, charge you for your nose job and if it all goes wrong they pack you off to an NHS hospital and the NHS picks up the bill for whatever went wrong - not the private hospital. Not that things don't go wrong with the NHS I hasten to add.

Hope you've improved btw