To be angry at my doctor.

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I just come from a meeting with a psychiatrist, my doctor referred me. In the referral letter he states that I have a drug addiction problem and have for many years. I've never had a drug problem in my life.
I think he must have confused me with someone else but all the other information was mine. What can I do? I've obviously rang my doctor and I'm not getting a reply. I'm so mad. There is no mention of drug abuse in any of my notes.Any advice?

They've mixed you up with someone else. This happened to me when a specialist I was referred to wrote to my GP and said I had "disclosed" to them that I had a child from a previous relationship (I had no children at the time). I wrote letters to both the specialist and the GP to correct the mistake and it was cleared up.

Happened to me too. I had a psychological assessment and the psychologist had done her prep work based on someone else's medical records from my GP. I got a bit of a shock when she started asking me about random, quite traumatic events that had never happened to me

I was pretty annoyed that someone else's name was at the top of every single page and the psychologist missed it I complained to both my surgery and my solicitor who had arranged the appointment and got nothing more than a 'whoopsie, these things happen' from either of them.

Really poor. Worse still that they are so blasé about it.

When I was pregnant with my first the midwife started asking me how long ago I’d had an abortion and if I felt this was something I may do with my current pregnancy. I had never been pregnant before nor had an abortion, I would never even consider having one. Thankfully, the midwife took charge of rectifying it!

It's a mistake
I understand that you're upset by it but GP's are humans and let's face it we all
cock up sometimes.
Take a breath, put it in writing to your GP surgery ask them to remove comments from your record and write out to psychiatrist to explain.
That you would appreciate it if this could be done by your next appointment
That will hopefully get you the outcome you want rather than reacting to it on the phone.