To think doctors, specifically GP's need to change their approach to patients

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We live in the technological age. We have access to information at our fingertips, that someone fifty years ago, hell even twenty years ago would not have been able to comprehend.
Am I being unreasonable to think that drs need to lose the 'we know best about everything medical' attitude.

Obviously I won't be performing brain surgery any time soon or stripping legs of vascular veins to be used in cardiac surgery but I can read a laboratory report and understand what it means and I can get the gist of most medical studies.

"Half of what you are taught in medical school will be wrong in 10 years’ time. The trouble is, none of your teachers know which half"
Former dean of Harvard medical school, Sydney Burwell.

Remember Andrew Wakefield? Remember all the people who swallowed that they shouldn’t vaccinate their children despite the vast majority of the medical profession telling them otherwise? Or a million coronavirus conspiracy theories? The general public is not able to critically evaluate “a few internet articles” and in fact I think expecting them to do so would be actively damaging to public health interests.

I have a similar problem, my Free T4 (with TSH in normal range)has been suboptimal on four occasions, that combined with the diagnoses of Fibromyalgia, PCOS and Bi-polar has led me to the conclusion that there is something out of whack with my HPA axis, but no one will listen (plus the chronic insomnia...)

If no one will listen to you, what does that tell you? i take it you mean several medical professionals aren't listening....not just the same GP.

Fwiw i have found every single GP or Consultant very willing to listen to me and how i feel/ideas about a particular issue & very often, having listened, they then proceed to tell me how and why i'm wrong... because though i know a lot about IT, i know jack about orthopedics or Meniere disease.

I work in a role with people who are at risk of complications due to diagnoses that on many occasions have not even been explained to the person I am talking to.
This happens two to three times a week, since being in the role I am currently in.
So it's not just my personal experiences I am basing my criticisms on.
It is a wide spread problem that I encounter every single week.
I should not be in position where I am having to explain how the diagnosis happened, the possible consequences of the diagnosis and the remedies that are available to ease the burden of the diagnosis.
Every single week, I am encountering people who have not even been contacted by their GP, who have a life altering condition that they have not even been told they have.
For some reason I am quite angry about this, it is not my place to offer the kind of support these people need.
I am encountering people who have not been given the information they need fromtheir doctors, the places they can reach out to, to get further support.

Furthermore I have recently been highlighted as a shining example of how the role I am in, should be performed, so I will continue to offer the support I do, but it is really not my place to be doing so, but if I don't, who will?

I don't see how someone would know that someone has a condition when the person concerned doesn't know? How do you find out?

We have automatic data retrieval form GP surgeries. They put a coding on a patient's file and our system receives that coding .
It can also lead to people ending up on our system who have been miscoded,, which is a giant headache in itself.

I started with neurological symptoms of numbness in my feet, I went to see my GP who spent the entire appointment talking about something totally unconnected with my feet. When she finally drew breath I tried to tell her about my feet & got told to make another appointment, my time was up. I couldn't get another appointment until February, this was November, by then the numbness had traveled up my legs & I was struggling to walk, the doctor at that appointment told me I would have to live with it. I finally got to see a neurologist in July by which time I couldn't walk any further than a couple of steps, I had scans & nerve conduction studies & got told if I had seen them when the numbness started they could have done something but the damage was too extensive now. I'm in a wheelchair now, housebound & unable to care for myself. I know we should be greatful for the NHS but I have lost faith in it now

@nat6999 that's horrifying. I am so guttted for you, being let down like that.
Have you looked into suing for medical negligence?
You've had permanent harm done and now have a life that is severely impacted by lack of care.