To not be happy with this on my medical record ?

I think if you read back through my comments you’d see that I wrote “if they haven’t included anything about the issues you went in for, I’d be pissed too.”

Emphasis on the word “if”!

GPs notes are almost always rushed, especially OOH. That wasn’t a moral judgement, it’s the nature of the job when you’re seeing patients back to back. My GP uses AI to listen in and write the notes now! I felt massively icky about it at the time but it’s probably one of the best uses of AI I’ve seen - the appointment captured accurately and saves the GP time.

I don’t think so no. I am looking at factually what she wrote and what the gp wrote that I know of.

she didn’t say she wasn’t there for 40 mins, she said she didn’t think/feel that way then counters with it wasn’t busy, this doesn’t not mean factually she wasn’t.
she also hasn’t stayed it wasn’t anxiety, nor has she disputed she brought up multiple issues, nor did she even dispute she wanted to stay longer and keep talking.

the difference is you made assumptions past what she wrote, which is she want there 40 mins, it wasn’t anxiety, that was all that was on her notes, her notes were rushed, this is all guess work and not remotely written here.

Aren’t we all making assumptions, given none of us were in the room?

I’m choosing to believe what OP has said, you’re choosing to believe what the GP wrote. Neither of us know what really happened.

What I’m saying correlates exactly with what OP said: she doesn’t think she was there for 40 minutes and the problem she went in with had nothing to do with anxiety.

It is a well established pattern that women with anxiety are the regularly dismissed in healthcare settings. It’s not projecting to acknowledge that.

I think you’re projecting, this was a 40 min out of hours appt. You don’t know what for, and you don’t know what was in the notes. This was not a patient that was ignored or rushed, and you’ve no idea if the notes were, or even if the root cause is anxiety, it may well be, and the doctor feels the op used the appt to discuss multiple issues and wanted to keep talking, past this.

it’s not a crime to say something is anxiety related, factually it may well be.

as said, I think you’re projecting here rather than looking at what was presented, which is why several people are disputing what you’re writing as it doesn’t correlate at all to either what you know or what the op said.

So you was there for 40 minutes you haven’t got back to us but what did the doctor say in that time or were you talking the whole time? It all sounds very vague. I won’t be worried about the notes. I’ve been more concerned in getting treatment for whatever condition you primarily went in there for an 00H appointment.

He took 40 minutes! If this was an uncaring Dr brushing it all off as anxiety then do you really think he would have wasted 40 mins on an emergency OOH shift doing that??

I’m going from what OP has said: she went in about something unrelated to anxiety, but it has all been reduced to anxiety in the note.

And yes, it’s entirely feasible that’s all that was in the note. These notes are always rushed, not detailed, and I’ve had this exact scenario before - actual concern ignored and everything reduced to anxiety.

Well perhaps the diagnosis was anxiety and you just don’t like it ?

you explain symptoms and they do their best to work out what might be wrong

not saying that doctors don’t get it wrong and can be quick to diagnose mental health issues - but for me the 40mins is a bit of a give away that it’s not a simple physical thing or that the OP was “ah but…” to everything

You don’t know what it says, surely you can’t see what the note says. And I’m not sure you know what she went in for either, and if the doctor diagnoses anxiety I’m not sure you’re in the position you think you are to say this is a misdiagnosis? Your post is baffling.

This, do posters really think that was all that was noted?

You’ve no idea what else was in the notes.

A lot of people on Mumsnet seem to think doctors have to be polite in medical notes, or that the notes are there for the patient, or that the patient gets to decide what’s relevant. None of this is really the case. The doctor records their personal, factual observations of the patient that they feel is relevant from a medical perspective and which would be helpful to either them or another doctor.

The fact that you spent 40 minutes bringing up multiple issues at an emergency appointment is a factual observation and is absolutely relevant.

If your medical notes said ‘patient is a heavy cannabis user’ when you’ve never touched weed in your life, then that would be something it would be reasonable for you to ask to be removed from your notes, because it would be untrue and misleading. But stating that you spoke for 40 minutes about lots of things at an emergency appointment is a factual observation and not at all misleading. It’s a relevant piece of information for the doctor to consider.

Presumably that was not the entire note, just the part op takes exception to. There is probably also the actual symptoms and any treatment prescribed or recommended listed.

So let’s say OP went in with severe stomach pains.

OOH has decided it’s anxiety.

Note doesn’t mention the main. Subsequent appointment - no record of history of stomach pains. Diagnosis potentially missed.

If she’s gone in with physical symptoms that haven’t been mentioned, then the note isn’t accurate is it? The notes are to inform future doctors what was discussed in the consultation.

It’s accurate if the doctor could see anxiety in front of him / it isn’t the patient who does the diagnosis and it isn’t the doctors role to ignore anything the patient doesn’t mention

@Peach68 already said she went in for something unrelated to anxiety. Whatever she went in for hasn’t been mentioned in the notes, only anxiety - so it’s not really accurate is it?

It was an OOH doctor. Emergency support.
YABU.

I’m not really sure that note is code for hysterical, seems fairly factual to me. And it also doesn’t say the doctor objected to the 40 mins either, they could have shut the appt down. Lastly the fact the op didn’t feel or think it was 40 mins, doesn’t mean it wasn’t. She never said that.

op, is it not accurate?

Also this. I’ve been having investigations for a health problem for 6 years and they’ve said that “must be anxiety” even though IT ABSOLUTELY MAKES NO SENSE 🤬🤣

This. It’s not the patients job to make sure the appointment runs to time.

I was a teacher. Some people think the job consists entirely of standing in front of a class and teaching. One woman even told me she couldn't be a teacher because it would be so boring just sitting at a desk all day watching the kids work!

Indeed and they will have a screen full of patients to triage and deal with. They will only call a certain proportion in to be seen face to face. I'd say about a quarter of patients a doctor will speak to in an out of hours evening would be face to face so an empty waiting room should not affect the time taken to see you. I would take that comment as a plea to the out of hours service provider not to fire them for inefficiency (telephone calls /notes are reviewed randomly by oohs for quality checks).

Unfortunately if a doctor gets just one patient who misunderstands what oohs is for (keeping patients alive until their regular GP can take over), it can affect the workflow for an entire evening.

The problem with having anxiety in your notes is that doctors have a tendency to blame women's issues on anxiety if they see it already in the notes, has happened to me a few times because I once was diagnosed with anxiety, which had been treated with extensive therapy but doesn't matter, once anxiety always anxiety to some doctors.

Doctors get paid a lot of money and has failed to address the primary issue. They don't realise that it may take longer if you are anxiety. X

How is it unprofessional if it is true?