Doctor lying on report..

No you are not being unreasonable. Make sure you tell them you do not trust that doctor and demand another . Clinical negligence is absolutely a issue and it’s getting worse not better

Some GPS like any other human, do have a god complex. My otherwise lovely gp once said to me "I could be wrong but I seldom am" I felt very sad for his wife in that moment. I pointed out he was just another flawed human not a robot and he got things wrong with me in the past. Unless he has MRI eyeballs there's always things he needs to refer up. I think in my GPS case it unwillingness to be wrong, rather than malice.

Just ask to see another gp. Say it's not personal if you need to.

Wouldn't surprise me. I’ve experienced one lying before. My ex is a GP and I used to hear about many cover ups going on.

Of course there is many wonderful doctors but some are incompetent, have god complexes and are in it for the money.

As an orthopaedic surgeon I think you are being very reasonable to ask for a second opinion.
An alternative would be to take the second appointment with the same consultant, take the letter and ask him how he came to the conclusion you can reach your lumbar spine. He might not be deliberately lying about the other two things - muscle wasting is very subjective and lifting the shoulder above 30 degrees is done by the deltoid muscle, so difficulties doing this are not due to rotator cuff weakness. Was it uncomfortable for you? - sometimes the pain can inhibit the movement.
Unless you are visiting a large hospital there may only be one shoulder specialist working there - you would need to referral to another hospital to get the second opinion - in this case it may be better to see the initial doctor and challenge him / explain the bits of the letter that you disagree with / try and work things out.
I think you need to actually have suffered harm as a result of the doctors negligence to have a legal case so I'm not sure you will achieve anything form going this route.
Before you see anyone again have a think about what you want to happen. There is no magic wand for the conditions you describe on your MRI but expressing your hopes and expectations will allow whoever sees you to take these into account and if what you want is not something that they would recommend, at least they can explain why.

Not a medic, and subject to medical advice including second opinions, but I wouldn't write off physio. In my experience, they can be transformative, but it may take a while to find the right one.

I've been in the position where a surgeon proposed operating to discern the issue, but a physio. solved it (unusual, I'm sure, so, again, #seeyourdr!)

And in the position when physio. made it much, much worse - before I tried a different one who worked on the same condition to, basically, change my life.

I've also been in the position, recovering from broken bones, when movement has been impossible. Not difficult, or painful, but like moving a joint is like trying to bend steel - like, your body absolutely, fundamentally knows that it was never meant to move that way, any more than an elbow can turn inside out. Yet, with physio., over time, it did.

You really need to stick at it and work on it in your own time, though. I've never had a recovery that lasted less than 6 months to a year, and no recovery yet has been absolute, back-to-normal and not required some maintenance treatment.

Yeah I'm really struggling to believe that. It fits in with OPs narrative neatly but those exact words? I'd be very very surprised.

People always say can you afford to pay something like £250 for a private appointment.

I am all for using the private sector but you have to be realistic. £350 is far closer to an average appointment now, but then ths consultant will want at least an MRI (£400 + in most places) and a follow up appointment at maybe £250. So that is close to £1k just to get a diagnosis.

Then you have to either pay for private treatment (probably several thousand) or go back into the NHS system with the diagnosis. The two systems don’t communicate that well, so that can take time.

Private is only an alternative for this kind of thing if you are prepared to commit £1k for diagnosis and more for treatment.

so glad you got a good outcome

Also - it's entirely reasonable to be angry about having things that didn't happen put into your report, especially if you think it might have been done deliberately.

It won't fix medical misogyny, but it would certainly help if a lot more women were women to escalate things about their treatment!

Am I being unreasonable to ask again for a second opinion from a different doctor

NO!

Absolutely get a 2nd opinion! Don't go to the same doctor.

If you want to see them jump, make sure you contact their health board about this.

You sound hard work.

Usually best to avoid a cliched phrase that’s only ever used to be a dick to someone.

It’s not clear if you are unhappy with the outcome of the complaint you made. The ombudsman will not review your case until you have been through the complaints process.

@Anon662120622 It sounds like your complaint has at least now been looked at and am I right that you now have another appointment with a different orthopaedic specialist?

I'm assuming you had an x-ray around the time of the trauma you suffered and you've had an MRI?

Hopefully you will get some more answers at your new appointment.
Another poster above has also suggested this - but have any of your Dr's or the physio's considered Frozen Shoulder? You can get this as a result of a trauma - and also can cause somewhat of the deformity you shared a photo of. Also this is an incredibly painful condition - and is not easy to treat.

I'm not a medic though and it could be many things that's causing you so much pain and loss of movement.
Try to be realistic with any NHS physio/rehab. They generally can do little - certainly very limited hands on therapy so now you have a new appointment it might be better to save any money for private physio.

You shouldn’t have too but as pp said, sometimes if you can afford it going out of the system to a private dr can be wonderful as they’re having to look at what’s in front of them instead of previous notes. This is what progressed me forward when I was stuck in a situation with a dr keep saying I was anxious and not actually looking or dealing with the problem

Perhaps - I’d rather think that - but I’m afraid some of them are in fact the significant minority of medical professionals who give the excellent majority a bad name!

Having had 3 normal natural births, my shoulder pain was worse for comparison.
I can well understand and sympathise with the OPs fury.
Yes, their are some lazy shite doctors out there.
Life can be tough if you have one.
Thankfully I don't.

No but that's not the point.

I was responding to soemone saying the physio can corroborate that the Dr was "lying".

My point is that unless the physio was present during the Dr's examination of the OP (unlike her husband) they cannot corroborate anything about the Dr's notes.

A lot of them are menz goaders here to goad women.

Why do you need to storm in anywhere?

Why can't you just raise the notes discrepancy with him?

As I understand it you've complained to PALS with a threat to make a complaint to the GMC but you haven't said that you've actually addressed your concerns with the Dr in question, and given him an opportunity to explain what he's done and why.

Have you raised it with him beause that's what I'd want to do before making a formal complaint

I sometimes think that there are posters on here who would even find an excuse for premeditated murder if the perpetrator was a medical professional in the NHS

And teaching! 😆

Shoulders are incredibly complex joints OP. Very often the initial problem, e.g subluxation which presents with its own series of signs or symptoms can lead to a tendonitis or secondary problem due the the joint compensation from pain and hence a second assessment may reveal pain in a different area or different examination results.

20 weeks is not long in terms of shoulder pain recovery. If physio has not worked, I think you now need imaging (MRI) to ascertain the damage and have a management plan going forwards. You may wait 3 months on NHS or privately in a week. It’s not right that you have to pay but that’s the choice we have. Get well soon

The shoulder looks dropped which is similar to how mine looks at the moment but I had compressed a nerve from my neck and its caused arm and hand weakness so can lift my arm so far before it gets weak and heavy and cant get it behind my back. My issues stem from my neck due to bone spurs but pain is worse in my shoulder even though it's coming from my neck.