To have been patronising to the Doctor?

Exactly, if you read the whole OP you can clearly get that this doctor did not allow her to speak.

If the doctor had:
(a) not told her to shut up halfway through the first sentence,
(b) read the appointment triage notes (a couple of lines, not much),
(c) read the patient notes

then he would have had that information. But he didn't have enough respect for her to do any of those things. It's difficult to tell a doctor about your medical history when they won't let you speak. He should have known it before she even entered the room.

My son has a serious condition which he always mentions first at a GP's appointment, even if he's there about something else because his meds have to factored in to any further prescribing.
More than once he's been lectured about making his personality all about his condition. Most people don't even know about it as the only time he mentions it is at medical appointments.

I've had the finger wagging and lecture about only one symptom per appointment, even though I suspected the symptoms might be linked. It turns out I have advanced cancer, over a year of missed chances to at the very least refer me.

No, it is not that. Uk has, sadly, become a post code lottery regarding healthcare and other services.
Many are not aware of what is going on and the poor service across UK just because they are lucky... for the time being....

I always think this! How do they do it??

I think people who can easily get appointments are a combination of dramatic, pushy and/or emotional - with a thick skin.

They seem to have such an abysmal opinion of patients, holding them in absolute contempt.

Went to see my GP yesterday about acid reflux. She had me in and out in 2 minutes with a three month prescription and I was paying privately for that. Didn't have a chance to ask any questions etc. Appointment time should have been 15 minutes. No questions, nothing!

Good for you. I am sick to death of medical professionals just not listening.

You might joke about it but I am immunocompromised and it is the first thing I tell a doctor or nurse when I have an appointment. It completely changes how they relate to me, especially in regard to infections. I’m unclear as to why you didn’t raise your transplant before saying you thought you had a UTI as it is clinically relevant. However, the doctor was being patronising and should have heard you out.

I wish these people who 'book appointments at the drop of a hat' would come on here and tell us how they do it. The majority of us who struggle to get any appointment without days and weeks of repeated ringing could do with some tips.

My finest moment was after my waters had broken and a patronising male consultant said they hadn't, that I'd just peed myself. I sat up indignantly, and in a withering tone that I DID know the difference between my vagina and my urethra, thank you very much!!! He went purple, and his gaggle of medical students tried hard not to laugh.....luckily the rest of the labour and delivery went well and was totally led by lovely midwives.

Sleep well and hope you have a speedy recovery, OP.

I think the rude doctor wasted his own time actually.

The problem is that when you have a serious health condition a lot of things tend to go wrong at once. In OP's case at the very top of her notes should be her transplant and it should be referred to within the notes, undoubtedly as causal or linked to other issues.

I had an embolism and a thyrotoxicosis in the same month at the start of the year. It has been unbelievably hard to get to the bottom of both what caused this, how we get me back to normality and what I need to be keeping an eye on. I have also discovered pernicious anemia in this time and started HRT in order to try to minimise extra things going on such as 5 day migraines. My notes are now extensive, all in the space of 12 months. Yet the Dr yesterday on the phone just wanted to put me on antidepressants. Today in person the Dr has sent me 20min drive away to get a d-dimer because she is worried I may have another PE (am confident I don't and this would be the 5th time I have spent a whole day waiting in A&E only to be sent home with nothing else done). What I would like is a full bloods panel as I think I have an iron deficiency anemia, or if they insist on saying it's my lungs, a CT as a D-dimer and Xray isn't going to give them any idea of the current condition of my lung - I've had 5 chest Xrays this year and none of them discovered my PE or showed that half of my lung wasn't fully functioning. The CT after they sent me home did. I must have inadvertently cost the NHS £££ because they keep doing d-dimers and Xrays. Surely if you have had more than 2 Xrays in the last 3 months after a PE you should be sent for a CT? Doesn't that make sense?

Having to repeat all of this to the doctors every time I go in is impossible, I have to guess what might be connected and hope they've read the notes.

I think they DO read the posts but they don't read them properly....Grrrr

He sounds like he shouldn’t be a doctor! Awful! I think you did very well and he won’t be like that with you again.

Ive had to be quite forceful with locum gps a couple of times. Once I had mastitis (3rd baby) and phoned to request antibiotics. The gp was dismissive and suggested it was a stomach bug. I very assertively told him that it wasn’t my first rodeo and that I was on my own overnight with 3 children and asked if he was prepared to write a script or not! He did.

No, that's not unreasonable,.as I said in the first paragraph I think he should have read the notes relating to the appointment before you came and I don't think you were in any way unreasonable.

The "however" was in response to posters saying things like "they never read the.bloody notes", I think it can be helpful for people to understand what's going on on the other side too.

Really hope you get well soon.

What is is that you disagree with though? It does largely concentrate in the bladder, hence not being a particularly suitable antibiotic beyond UTI treatments.

And I haven't taken an antibiotic for years. I think their overprescription, and overuse in agriculture, is a huge issue and a squandering of probably one of the most important medical advances humans have ever made.

This is a bit rich. This is Mumsnet, the PPs can hardly be expected to treat your posts as the oracle either.

GP records have a summary of important past diagnoses at the top, so it's not unreasonable to expect a doctor to scan these before an appointment which would take about 15 seconds and would show the kidney transplant listed.

I am a medical interpreter, which means I see different patients and different doctors in different healthcare settings every day. In my experience by far the most significant factor in patient health outcomes is the attitude of the doctor. There are plenty of bored, arrogant ones who don't listen to the patient or assume they're an idiot. When you get a good, engaged doctor who treats the patient rather than the data on their computer, you know the future for your patient will be completely different. It's more influential than the waiting lists, equipment and drugs available or the specific circumstances of the patient's condition.

So you don’t think, as a solicitor, that your new client might be nervous/anxious/ upset about seeing a solicitor for the first time??

Whilst of course the OP made a good point, the reality is that GPs dont have time to read reams of notes. I always immediately give a very short summary of my rare condition. GPs see many, many time wasters and people who book appointments at the drop of a hat, when lots of ailments clear themselves thanks to wonderful biology.
I agree that some doctors are infuriatingly patronising though.