to be fuming about this doctor

[Kaloki]

Just been with DP to our new doctors where he was talking about his anxiety disorder. The locum doctor asked him how long he'd had it, and when DP said "since I was 7", the locum responded, "were you beaten as a child or something? haha"

Seriously, that's not on is it? He didn't even register the shocked looks on our faces! How can anyone think that's a good thing to joke about?

He also told DP that no one would believe him about the anxiety disorder, despite DP having been in treatment since he was 7!

What a total fuckwit!!! I'm so sorry that you and your DP had to listen to that!

I would seriously consider finding a different GP is I were you.

Arsehole.

Thats dreadful.Complain, you must complain!

I think many GPs need ongoing training in how to actually speak to people!

Locum Doctors again, are only in it for the money, could not give a shite about other Doc's patients. The older ones are the real LOSERS IMHO as they have not really been able to get a foot in the door in a Practice.
I am just baking a lemon drizzle cake so I have to go, but I will pop by later and tell you what I really think!

A friend of mine went to see a GP after she's had PND - ot was about an unrelated problem. The GP had obviously read her past medical history and asked her if she was "over her mad period now"

That's awful BarbEDahl!

We will be complaining, definitely. And hopefully we wont be seeing that idiot again!

OMG
complain, really. Locums get away with rubbish behaviour just because they're locums - DH has the same problem, he runs a pharmacy and the locums they get are awful.

I saw a locum antenatal psychiatrist in my 2nd PG - because I'd had mild PND after DD was born. I have massive scars from self-harming (this was from several years ago BTW, before I even met DH, didn't do it when I had DD!) and make no effort to hide them - all in the past and all that

Anyway, I saw my notes after the session and it said "there seems to be evidence of self-harming..." FFS! I actually told her that I used to do it!

In my experience, medical training does not cover diplomacy/tact/appropriate responses/any kind of social eptitude (eptitude?? Is that a word?)

kaloki- The doctor was amazingly insensitive and I think you should speak/ write to the practice manager about it.
Medical training definitely does cover a lot of communication skills (nowadays at least) but some people are naturally good at it and others are poor! Those who are not good at it are less interested in improving as they see it as less important, etc

Bernadette- are you a doctor or do you just have an extensive experience of locum doctors, their rates of pay, etc? Locum doctors are definitely not 'in it for the money'. It is possible that this was the case years ago but it is not today as the pay of GP partners has risen a huge amount and the pay of locums has not. Most 'older' locums (unsure what you class as older) are ex-partners so their choice to work as locums has little to do with not being able to obtain a partnership. You sound as if you must have had a bad experience but it still shouldn't lead you to make foolish sweeping generalisations.

Bernadette I whole heartedly second what you have to say

Bernadette- but this is a different thread, not a previous one about the OOH service. Perhaps, if you had so many poor experiences with locums at your old practice, you should have taken them up with the partners and the practice manager. After all, it is their responsibility to staff their practice adequately!
As I said before, the OP's locum doctor obviously had v poor communication skills.

When my dd was 18 months old I went to the doctors as she had 2 nasty spots on her body. They looked quite inflamed and turned out to be infected. The doctor was quite ancient and had no bedside manner.

He said 'it could be cancerous tumours but she's a bit young'! Then he said 'it looks like cigarette burns'!!!!!! As if!
It turned out to be chicken pox, which of course was a more obvious diagnosis!!

I was livid but too shocked to complain and never saw him again. Luckily he retired a few years ago.

bernadette The last locum I saw before that idiot was lovely and very helpful, so I definitely wouldn't say all locums are like that. Thankfully. I only wrote that he was a locum to keep telling myself we don't necessarily have to see him again.

follygirl That's ridiculous!!

kaloki I know!