And my OH's oncologist and GP arguing between themselves (of course not directly, they use OH as the piggy in the middle), as to who's budget pays for blood tests, "routine" drugs, referrals for scans/MRIs, etc. They're a bloody nightmare.
Oncologist will do blood tests in her dept that she wants for the ongoing chemo treatment. But whenever there are any side effects, adverse blood test results (i.e. levels of iron, calcium etc etc), or OH reports suspicions of a lump (not directly connected with his current cancer), or other pains that aren't necessarily chemo related, she just refers him back to his GP for drugs, scan referrals, etc etc. GP just bats it back saying the oncologist should do it - via the receptionist of course, the GPs won't give a consultation (not even by phone), so it's basically a message back saying go back to oncologist.
Which is, of course, impossible because oncologist is uncontactable between routine appointments, so messages have to be left with her secretary which are never replied to until the next appt. There is, of course, the cancer nurses who are supposed to be the point of contact, but when you contact them, they just say it's something you need to talk to the oncologist about!
This happens every sodding time. It's been nearly 9 months since the oncologists blood test showed a vit D deficiency (he was already on the highest does over the counter Vit D supplement), so she told him she couldn't prescribe anything and to get the GP to do it. GP glibly refused (via receptionist message) and told him to get the oncologist to prescribe. Cue more phone calls saying oncologist told GP to do it. Then we get a message saying GP needs blood test to see the levels (apparently they can't access oncology blood test results and "it's too much hassle" to contact oncology to ask them to send over the blood test results!). So OH has to have a GP surgery blood test. Then results come back, showing low Vit D (what a surprise, we knew that), via receptionist message with the advice of "go to the chemist to get Vit D supplement). That's despite OH already telling them he'd been on the highest strength OTT supplement and oncologist said prescription needed. GP then sends message via receptionist to say that he needed to refer to the practice's "prescription consultant" to ask for the best prescription as he's also already on other vitamin prescriptions and also iron/calcium supplements. A couple of weeks later, receptionist calls with a message from the "prescription consultant" to suggest he goes to the chemist and gets a Vit D supplement!
It's like they're all bloody zombies, completely incapable of reading the bloody notes or listening to you. Always wanting to fob you off onto someone else.