MayBeMaw
Grandmafrench
Brilliant advice, Susan. I was just thinking the same.
Good morning everyone and, of course dear, dispirited GrannyS.
If you can’t do it for yourself, get someone to phone for you and express their shock at seeing a family trying to cope, mostly alone - without support, advice, practical help, assessments or even, interest! Get someone to make some pretty strong demands for you. They’re a total disgrace - if your DH is no longer their patient, they need to confirm that, and you’ll immediately change to another Surgery!! You aren’t qualified to assume responsibility for his medical care, nor are you fit enough - they’ve simply allowed you to take on their work, by stealth, and they should be ashamed!
Sorry, GrannyS, but you can tell how very angry I am for you and your Husband. You’ve nothing to lose - they need to be told! Good luck and please take care. x
Have I missed something GMF?
I was not aware GrannySomerset’s DH had been disowned by his GP. I don’t think they can do that.
But changing practice is not as easy as it sounds. Many practices are simply closed to new patients- even those living within their “catchment area” , this happened to a friend who moved her father down here from the NW and she was simply unable to get him signed up to his nearest doctor. This is a consequence of massive housing development in areas without the infrastructure to support the increase in population.
However, having read that the Dr has now prescribed the necessary a/b’s I hope we can look forward to more positive news tomorrow.
What on earth? I think you may have missed lots of things because I'm at a loss to understand why - some 60 odd posts after mine and when a situation has changed - you would choose to quote what I have said in its entirety but misinterpret what I have said, along with attempting to explain to me how the NHS works /doesn't work.
I may live abroad but I wonder why you need to sound so dogmatic and patronising? I have absolutely no interest in such explanation - there are enough British Doctors (and Lawyers) in my family for me to have plenty of current knowledge. But that was not the point of my post.
This is Soop's Kitchen - a very special place for increasing numbers of us. It is not somewhere for arguments, heated debate, unpleasantness or disapproval and disrespect. There are plenty of threads on Gransnet where this takes place on a daily basis, but I can't see how anyone here would have been discomfited by my 'hard line' advice to call out a surgery for their appallingly negligent behaviour and treatment of a patient. I never said that the surgery had 'disowned' GrannySomersets DH, but certainly that question needed to be put to them, and an answer demanded, given their total silence concerning her long-term appeals for help and her increasing desperation which has concerned so many of us here.
It's fairly obvious that you didn't read my post properly but still felt that it warranted criticism of my personal opinion.
Please don't do this, or use the Quote button in this challenging way. If you feel you must disagree, or be disagreeable, then maybe don't comment; otherwise why not post elsewhere - because The Kitchen is simply not the place for it.
