What’s the point in the NHS?

So you think a free online LLM knows better than a doctor?

Speechless.

Well I did what the doctor told me and asked ChatGPT, which told me that I need a scan, a support and crutches! So it seems the doctor was incorrect in her treatment?
You got a scan, an x-ray scan 😁

Support and crushes are optional, not a requirement to heal, they just help you manage life better. Not what the NHS is for.

Well I'd have died in childbirth without it, potentially my child too during childbirth and again during his first asthma attack. My brother who required heart surgery as a baby would certainly be dead. They're just the major events, the antibiotics I got a few weeks ago for a UTI maybe prevented me getting sepsis and dying. The treatment my friend gets for arthritis helps her live a better quality of life rather than be disabled, reliant on others to care for her whilst living in excruciating pain.
Hopefully you get some perspective from this thread and just make that little bit of effort to find some physio exercises. Probably less effort to chatGPT it at home than it is to take a trip to hospital for it.

Out of exasperation at you turning up for emergency care with a twisted ankle, and then rejecting the advice you've been given by a highly-trained doctor.

Weirdly just got a text asking me to fill in an NHS survey about positive patient experiences about a minute after posting this.

So you’re being treated for minor, non life threatening conditions? And want to criticise me for being treated for a non life threatening condition?
You're embarrassing yourself now. These illnesses are deliberating for life, not a couple of weeks and will not get better just with time.

What planet are you living on that makes you think the two are comparable?

Your treatment was entirely appropriate. I worked in A&E over 30 years ago and management of sprains was the same then as it is now.
RICE .. Rest Ice Compression Elevate.

Then after a day or two gentle mobilisation. The vast majority heal perfectly well with absolutely no further intervention.

You don't need crutches (thought to slow down healing as weight bearing better) & physio doesn't speed recovery.

You’ve received appropriate care. You’ve been x-rayed and been given advice to rest and allow your ankle to heal. You just want to be molly-coddled.

If it doesn’t, why is she directing me to A.I. over a doctor?
Because you were probably acting like a know it all princess and they just wanted to get rid of you.

Have you actually met some of today's doctors? Some of them have a very basic grasp of the English language 🥺

She was told to do that, that must be what the treatment is now. This is what the NHS using AI is.

So they’d help my health and wellbeing, helping me become healthy sooner
No, they won't. You won't recover quicker because of support of crutches. They will just help you, maybe, to get on with your normal life. That falls under social care provision. You might want to make a referral to them. They'll laugh though!

How things have changed they used to hate you using Dr. Google

I understand your frustration with months of recovery ahead of you.

My husband dislocated his shoulder two years ago, he did get physio but only 4-6 weeks after the event when he could move it, it would have been futile before, he was in agony. He only had an xray- no scan? He didn’t need one. They assess your sprain clinically, no need for repeated xrays/scans to tell you same information, not to mention further exposure to radiation.

Maybe the referral to physio time scale might work out. I assume they will provide exercises to strengthen the ligaments if it’s a repeated injury. Could you not take the crutches offered or have I misunderstood that bit? He attended a hospital gym afterwards for a month or two. It was a fantastic service.

If you aren’t happy with your consultation, return today and speak to a different clinician. If you’re still not happy utilise PALS. Lots of options.

*Your treatment was entirely appropriate. I worked in A&E over 30 years ago and management of sprains was the same then as it is now.
RICE .. Rest Ice Compression Elevate.

Then after a day or two gentle mobilisation. The vast majority heal perfectly well with absolutely no further intervention.

You don't need crutches (thought to slow down healing as weight bearing better) & physio doesn't speed recovery*
Here you go, advice from a qualified and very experienced health professional, who is telling you exactly the same as I and others have told you. Are you still going to debate that you have not been treated properly?

My sister in law is a senior nurse, my other sister in law is a senior manager in the NHS, my niece and her partner are doctors, so was my brother in law, my grandmother was a nurse. Both my mum and my dad have received extensive cancer treatment over the last decade or so. My son spent time in hospital when he was little. I've done work for NHS foundation trusts.

I've met a few doctors over my time, yes, and I've not yet met one who doesn't have sufficient English to do their job.

I've also met a few racist tools on the internet.

So one uninterested employee means the whole of the NHS is on its knees?!!

I’ve always had an X-ray in the case of suspected fracture. I’ve had amazing care with an ongoing issue too - MRIs, regular blood tests.

I didn't call the ambulance, my colleagues did. I took a tumble down an ancient staircase and we all suspected a broken ankle. 999 sent the ambulance. I was not blue lighted to the hospital. If it wasn't appropriate they would have told my colleagues to arrange alternative transport. 🤷‍♀️

Put less money into the service? that'll make it much better.