Can we have a thread on ridiculous things GP's have said?

[Butmummysnotanearlybird]

My contribution was "Oh well baby needs to know what sick tastes like" when they actually had CMPA and reflux. I'm sure there's worse out there 🙃

It's long, sorry:
The worst one was a GP who refused to make a referral urgent for one of my DCs, who have very abnormal results from blood tests following an illness which saw them hospitalised. (One of the results was a massive indicator for a very nasty autoimmune condition.)
'It won't hurt them to wait a few more weeks' - the appointment was for six weeks later. I spent ten days ringing anyone who would listen and finally got the clinic receptionist to listen to my worries. DC was seen the next day and was in a specialist hospital the day after having diagnostic tests.
DC would have died of kidney failure within four months if not treated, and was steadily losing kidney function whilst the GP was denying it was urgent. (Tests showed DC's kidney function was down to 50% by the time they were seen.)

AssignedSlytherinAtBirth

But in the dairy example given, the GP concluded by saying she'd have to read up. Your reading of the situation seems incredibly biased. I'd be interested to know if you can do the same with my anecdote about the GP who announced he'd never heard of PMT and went on to Google it. Was that for my friend's benefit too as an artful "Let's see how much YOU know about PMT" or is it possible that he had woeful training in women's health? Or is that not a thing.

It seems hard to imagine someone who does know about PMT thinking it was a wonderful moment to play let's pretend we don't know what it is...

@vipersnest1 Wasn't HSP was it? My dd had that, but fortunately our lovely GP spotted it straightaway and GOSH managed to limit the kidney damage.

Also this. A spiteful, sneering thread. But of course it's just for 'lols' isn't it....

My usual gp is bloody awesome, he's one of my favourite people ever.

Not so much something daft a gp has said, but something daft done.

I was asked to go in yesterday by a new GPST for a Neuro exam. Got there and as usual the locum room has no hammer, didn't go get one from elsewhere, so no Neuro exam done. Total waste of time especially as after 10 months of being passed off as stressed/anxious/neurotic/mother/female (until I actually saw my usual gp who knew I was unwell and requested urgent mri and urgent 8 months and counting Neuro referral) I can now barely walk.

Also shrugged his shoulders and said "yes, it's a lot going on" when I tried to explain how emotionally battered im feeling.

Then 6 hours later I get a call from the surgery to say the Dr has a urine sample there for me to do?!?! And he's also sent a prescription to the chemist for a medicine im allergic to?!?!

There was a lot of tears yesterday.

@CallmeAngelina, it's GPA. It took two and a half years to get them into remission. It's a truly horrible disease to have and even more rare in younger people.
I can see why you asked about HSP, and actually the vasculitic rash is very similar.

I went to the doctors for severe headaches. He said I was a hypochondriac because I have mental health issues 🤦🏻‍♀️
Turns out I have idiopathic hypertension and I needed a lumbar puncture to reduce the pressure

My gp asked me yesterday if it was possible that I could be pregnant (I had a hysterectomy 3months ago)

A GP told me that I’m not pregnant. I was pregnant and now have a ten year old child to prove it 🤣. I went to see her as was worried I had a UTI but mentioned that I thought I might be pregnant as I presumed that it could affect the medication I would need to take. She said “you aren’t pregnant.” I think she thought I was much younger and was just being paranoid when in fact I was actually married and actively trying and was late in getting my period. 😆

Horrors, the priestly caste is being criticised! Someone call the police …

I think it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other. People are expecting way too much of GPs. Of course they’re not going to know every detail about every ailment known to man. Highly trained and knowledgeable though they are, they are generalists, not specialists. It’s in the name - General Practice.

The best GP-patient relationships (I’ve had, anyway) are collaborative, rather than deferential/combative and the best GPs are those who feel confident enough in their own ability to acknowledge this, and accept patient input rather than try to live up to the impossible ‘fount of all knowledge’ status that we have been historically encouraged to confer on them.

I'm sure l'm not alone in this one, but....
In the 70s. I was fourteen. Having horrendously heavy periods that lasted half the month. Bad pain, clots, anaemic, fainting. Once fainted at the top of the stairs at school and fell down the entire flight.
Went to see a doctor (not my usual GP - just saw who was available).
"Oh, don't worry about it. It'll right itself when you have a baby...."
I saw another doctor and went on the pill at 15. It was a revelation. Five days of light periods, no fainting, no more anaemia.
Who tells a 14 year old just to 'put up with it' and that everything will be fine once they have a baby?!

New GP sighed and said “it’s not rocket science” when I asked him to demonstrate use of peak flow metre for 3 year old, which we’d never used, many years ago. Came home, phoned local HA and transferred to a group practice.
he was an independent “family doctor”. Surgery was shut down within the year. Wonder why?!

I dont think we can rule out financial reasons though.

There's more than one cmpi/cmpa case on here. Dd2 had cmpi too. Was a fight to get listened too.

Convenient to not suspect or know about the most common allergy/intolerance going when the prescription milk costs 30+ pounds a tub.

I realise that's a practice budget/nhs funding issue and not an individual gp issue but the dishonesty is frustrating.

The logic of preferring to pay for multiple drs appointments, gaviscon, movicol, eczema creams, hospital admissions etc which must add up to more than a milk fir a year then u can move onto non dairy alternatives really does not make sense at all.

Ah yes, I had 'every woman has periods, you just need to learn to manage them' after I had just finished describing how the pain is so severe I passed out on the stairs, and that I can flood through a nighttime towel walking the length of my landing. Told me to try ibuprofen

Being told by the cardiac team to take up belly dancing . I'm relieved they didn't say pole dancing.

And people wonder why we can't recruit, why GPs are emigrating and retiring early and early career GPs are leaving the profession entirely and whole practices are closing and handing back contracts? There is a political project reaching fruition with the support of the media and fellow travellers and unfortunately the poor will suffer. If we're in the guessing game, care to guess during the pandemic how many hundred patients who were symptomatic were absolutely certain they didn't have COVID and it was just a cold. How many tested positive when tested? Care to guess how many days we closed our doors and didn't see patients F2F (zero, btw). Care to guess how many patients actually know what a GP working PT involves?

Doctor on cardio ward (middle aged) asked me, How long has your sister had Downs Syndrome?

Which considering the GPs at my practice drive BMWs and go on four holidays a year while working part time, makes me wonder if they need a bit of structure in their lives. They really do, I'm not making that up.

I'm sure we would have people queing up to be GPs if this were actually the case. But instead they are leaving in droves.

How do you even know how many holidays your GP takes or how many hours they work a week?!

I swear some people love to bash healthcare workers on here for fun. If the system doesn't work then it's down to the people at the very top. If you want better GPs then lobby the government for more funding and better conditions for them to work in.

Yep similar....
"All babies are sick" 🙄

Odd priestly caste that is abused several times a day with threats, swearing and personal attacks and too frequently assaulted. In reality, unfortunately it might be quite like the local vicar but perhaps not the image of an inviolate 'priestly caste' to which you wanted to allude.

Those doctors must be stupid. Giving up a cushy licence to print money that involves sitting at home not working. Need more structure in their lives.

Lots here. My dad was prescribed medication by a locum GP who hadn’t read his notes properly which was contraindicated with other drugs he was taking, he ended up being blue lighted to hospital. Mum was told that her symptoms were due to her age, nope she was in heart failure.

Took then 12 year old DS to the GP as he was self harming and expressing suicidal thoughts. Don’t worry she said, he’ll be fine after his GCSEs.

Mine is fairly harmless in light of the above. Told by my GP that I needed to do more exercise then I wouldn’t be so breathless. I was severely anaemic with a ferritin level of 2.

I rarely bother going anywhere near the place now.

I'm sure we would have people queing up to be GPs if this were actually the case

I wish I could post a photo but there are privacy issues. I will not be the only patient who has noticed a flashy car in the doctor's space.

I absolutely love my GP - she got me through some really dark times in early motherhood and is continuing to support me now as I'm facing another big challenge.
The only reason I found her though was because of how awful my previous GP was. She hadn't been particularly good prior to my last ever visit, but I remember sitting in her office with a 6 week old baby who just DIDN'T SLEEP and I had horrible PND and anxiety and I was absolutely at my lowest ebb, and she fucking smugly dismissed everything I said with a very blasé "oh, but babies do cry you know".
Turns out he had silent reflux, and looking back now it was also very likely he had CMPA. It was utter utter hell.