It is a nightmare getting an appointment with my GP. You have to phone on a Friday morning to make an appointment for the following week. Emergency appointments are normally for 2 or 3 days later. In the meantime the receptionist offers to take your symptoms and give them to the doctor and tells you 'there will be medicine ready for you at such and such pharmacy after 2pm today' ...
Last Thursday I called about my 3 year old dd who had woken up with huge swollen eyes and could hardly open them (turned out to be an allergic reaction to something rather than an infection) and was offered an appointment for the following Wednesday. The receptionist took the symptoms and said that the doctor would prescribe medication based on what I had told her and I could collect it after 2pm.
Is it normal to prescribe medication for a child without actually seeing them??? Or should I complain?
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Or this normal GP practice?
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firsttimemum77 · 13/11/2010 21:45
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