Doctor lying on report..

Do complain. If we don’t, things will never improve.

Anger seems a totally normal response to me as a reaction to a purportedly professional person writing untrue statements in a report that will potentially have a significant impact on the person’s health and well being.

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!

Doctors are human

Some are incompetent
some are lazy and can’t be bothered
some just lie

You’ve clearly met with one of those

You have the right to a second opinion and so you should go back to the surgery and emphasise your original request
backdated to when you made it.

Sounds like a rotator cuff tear/rupture.
Extremely painful.
An MRI will confirm this.
Steroid injections can help, but surgery can be necessary if it is a rupture.
Have you done the rotator cuff tests yourself to establish is it a tear or rupture?
I was in physio with a great person who probably made it worse, but she told me to go back to my gp for an mri, as she didn't think it was muscular because of my pain ldvel.
Shd was correct.
Prescription NSAID's....have helped so much with my pain. They are slow release.

That photo is shocking.
My physiotherapy made mine worse.
Resting would have been better.
It really was absolute agony.
Aleve nsaid's over the counter from the US were excellent as an anti inflammatory.
Vimova is the prescription one that I am on which now allows me to sleep whilst I wait for surgery.

Can you afford £250 for a private consultation ? Money well spent IME.

You need to go private, it’s shit but that’s where we are.

Not being able to give a full diagnosis is not surprising, with these sort of muscular/nerve/bone injuries it's not always easy to give an absolute diagnosis as one thing causes the others and the treatment is pretty generalised anyway, often a combination of rest, suitable exercise and pain relief, unless something has to be surgically repaired.

Hello, you have done the right thing, complained @ are now seeing an alternate doctor. I suggest conserving your energy to rest, recover and prepare for your treatment. Don’t bother with strangers on the internet. Good luck - and I’m glad you are getting an alternative opinion.

Ooof and ouch, that is pretty fucking obvious that there is something wrong with the shoulder there!

Have you had an X ray?

Your shoulder can't be deformed or dislocated or that would be very obvious.

OP I mean this kindly.

You are risking alienating the person who has spent the best part of a couple of decades probably reaching standards needed to become a Consultant in Ortho.

I would dial right back on using words like “lie” and saying you’re reporting to the GMC. Regarding Physio and Rehab staff, I think it more likely they have said your expectations haven’t been managed quite rightly. Which is clear from your original post.

You must be in an awful lot of pain and discomfort, but don’t risk no treatment or less rapid clinic appointments by threatening to report this and that person. The Consultant has literally nothing to gain by misdiagnosing you or trying to upset you.

Kindly, your shoulder can't 'jump out' because that would be dislocation.

I've tried to offer advice based on my brother who has had this issue for many years off and on.

But you're not listening or willing to accept advice, it appears.

Unless you get the right exercises it won't get better.
Can you accept that you might have to be more proactive and start looking for the right physio?

I don’t understand why this is unbelievable?

It seems perfectly in the line of normal human behaviour that a doctor mistakenly thinks that the rehab unit will diagnose, the rehab unit immediately says “your doctor is mistaken we don’t do that so you won’t get what you’re looking for from us - those doctors must think we’re miracle workers”. The OP is clearly paraphrasing but that very believable scenario could be paraphrased as the rehab unit saying the doctor is lying.

In fact I can’t believe so many people have never been referred to another person for a solution, only to have that second person confused and unable to deliver on what the first person promised from them. It happens all the time in healthcare, shops, call centres… any process that has multiple people with different specialisms that not everyone completely understands.

I agree this sounds odd.

I doubt they could sort all of that out in 5 minutes!

How does that conversation mean you need to see a surgeon?
They are likely NOT to do surgery but refer you to physio, which you could do yourself and avoid all the waiting.

Maybe you are conflating a steroid injection and steroids taken orally?

They are not the same and that would be something to discuss at the time.

You could be advised to take ibuprofen or use ibuprofen gel (again, something that the people I know have been advised to do.)

I don't think you need a doctor because this is a soft tissue injury.
The don't need an orthopedic doctor. They tend to work with bones and so on.
What kind of specialist did you see out of interest?

Basically, my advice is you take a step back, let got of your anger, accept that being angry is not going to achieve anything, and spend the rest of today searching online for a sports physio who deals with your kind of injury. (You don't say how you did this - that's relevant.)