So I go and see the doctor today and

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I tell him what the problem is and he asks me what I think it could be!! Der!!

wtf? sorry, but 90% of the doctors i've seen are f*&king useless.

i finally told one of them off. i told him that in any other job, when your client gives you a problem and you say something like 'i don't know' or 'what do you think i should do', you'd get sacked, so why should i pay him to tell me something a tramp on the street would appreciate getting a fiver for to say the same thing far more?

agree with expat. Don't trust gps as far as I could throw one. Haven't seen a GP apart from pg in 5 years.

i don't bother w/them at all. i go to the family planning clinic for all my female needs, and if the kids fall ill, i wait till after hours and phone NHS direct and get them an after hours appointment or go to A&E.

i'm serious, man, your GP is more useless than a fart. he recently wrote that my MIL broke her wrist playing golf - i guess that's what was on his mind at the time, glad it wasn't his mistress or wanking - and her request for temporary DLA was declined.

she'd actually shattered it when she tripped on an uneven paving stone and as she has rheumatoid arthritis, diagnosed by an after hours doctor as he told her it was the menopause (that she went thru 14 years before), her condition worsened.

she had to go thru a lengthy appeals process.

he also told her the menopause was causing symptoms that turned out to be type II diabetes.

My GP is fabulous.

i meant, MY GP is more useless than a fart. at least a fart brings you relief from trapped gas.

And a fart can give you endless amusement as you try to make it sound like a tune. Apparently.

it can also give you a great excuse to get some fresh air!

I find that some doctors just dont have the social skills to be able to ask questions or investigate without making you feel badly one way or another. I dont think its a measure of their ability, more a measure of their personality.

Unfortunately, for the patients and doctors, it can make the doctor seem uncaring/disinterested and the patient feel like they are a hypochondriac/making a fuss over nothing.

And some really don't give a toss.

Unless you have the same gp as expats gp of course.....

Ours are all great. Not a bad one in the whole bunch.

it's not just him, either. his cohort is a complete waste of space, too.

well, they won't take you outside your 'catchment' area here, twiglett, that's why we don't register elsewhere.

I'm new to this practice and was my first appointment I'm sure I'll get to know who to see & who to avoid! one down about 7 to go :o

i've tried that. they're all 'oversubscribed' and not obligated to take you if you're not in their catchment area.

we moved here b/c of the schools. rather have a good school than a good surgery b/c we'll be using the school more.

don't know if that's true in scotland, tippex. and tbh, i don't care, b/c we just avoid them at any rate.

LOL - ive just remembered what happened when i went to see my gp for a follow up for my pnd. I had been seeing another lady doctor who had been lovely.

My follow up had to be with my usual "Named" gp. I had always found him too quiet for comfort, not very sypmathetic, and acted like i was mad when i informed him of the meds that DD had been prescribed at hospital once until he read the notes and found i was right.

Anyway, at my follow up i stifled a laugh when he looked at why i was there - repeat prescription for AD's, tilted his to one side and asked "So, how are you?" in his most sympathetic tones.

It was nice that he tried though LOL.

besides, how am i to know the others ones at the other surgeries aren't crap, too, b/c i have yet to meet one here who isn't.

that's my 2p, but it's my experience.

My gp is great,there are a few in the practice I prefer over the others but on the whole we've had good treatment.