Does anyone know how this works with being called for vaccination when your doctors don’t actually know you are morbidly obese?
I’ve rang my doctors today to ask and have been told to wait to be called and that I am not listed as group 6 so will have to wait. I explained that I know I won’t be listed as in group 6 as the doctor won’t know I’m morbidly obese as they haven’t weighed me for years and I need to find out how to make sure the doctor knows I’m morbidly obese so I do get listed as group 6. I was then told they can’t tell how long I’ll wait and to wait to be called (ie they completely ignored my question about how the doctor will know). I asked if they could please clarify how the doctor will know to call me due to morbid obesity if they don’t know I’m morbidly obese? They said again to wait to be called in for the vaccination and that I’m not down as group 6. This went on about four or five times before they put me into the practise manager who repeated it to me twice before I asked if I needed to make an appointment to be weighed so that the surgery will know I am morbidly obese and therefore group 6. She then asked me to ring back and make an appointment with the nurse so the nurse can apparently explain to me about having to wait til I’m called and that I’m not currently in group 6. I gave up at that point.
I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. I’m eligible for the vaccine due to morbid obesity but I have to wait to be called in for the vaccine. I won’t be called as part of group six because the doctors don’t know I’m morbidly obese. I try to arrange to let the doctor know and I’m told to wait to be called in. Which I won’t be. Because they don’t know I’m morbidly obese.
Can anyone clarify what I’m supposed to do here? How do I get the doctors surgery aware that while they don’t have me down as group six, if they had my updated weight info they would do, but they won’t take my updated weight info?