Faith In Doctors!!!

[Spliff]

Can your doctor speak English? The last one I saw couldn't...

[XTR]

Originally posted by Spliff
Can your doctor speak English? The last one I saw couldn't...

JUST!!!! ya should see his handwriting though!!

[Knoxville]

Originally posted by Spliff
Can your doctor speak English? The last one I saw couldn't...

Hang on a second let me just put my political correctness hat on

"thats obscenely racist and you should all be ashamed, just because some of our docters (ones i have seen i base this on NO stereotype) can't speak english shouldn't meen they're not fully able to prescribe drugs and diagnose a person properly and possibly dertermine they're life or death"

oh i'm sorry was there some sarcasm in there?

[scottyman]

Depends who you see - you've always got the option to change docs.
My local gp (changed from the main gp, to the aussie girl who's been there for a few years recently) is great - she's absolutely mad, dead serious and you better pay attention to what she says.

I had very bad food poisoning last year, and literally couldn't move... my g/f bundled me in the car, took me down... nursey told my g/f that I had to book an appointment... Rach (my doc) came out, screamed at the nurse... had to get me on a stretcher, pumped me up with drugs, gave me an ice-bath... after that, had a huge amount of respect for her!

She made me promise that if I felt like throwing up at all over the next week, to call the ambulance immediately, then call her after and she'd go in the ambo with me

It's unusual that you get docs that are that good, but you should be able to find anyone better.

[n3wt]

Originally posted by Knoxville
yeah and you can loose your life. i don't see how a few years of medical school can give you the right to basically choose and decide who lives and dies.

Five to seven, actually. And it's not like anyone below the level of registrar gets to make the important decisions anyway. But life and death? Hippocratic oath: do no harm. That's why doctors can't euthanise people in this country.

People who've had a bad experience tend to shout louder than those who have had a good one, so quite a lot of docs seem to be getting a bad rap recently.

Doctor competance is another matter; most are constrained by NHS resources; hence you only get seen for 5 minutes and things get overlooked. Don't blame them, they're only doing their jobs to the best of their abilities. You want to take the load off them, go private.

As for skin tags, thread is a perfectly viable way of taking them off (cuts circulation). They can re-occur whereever with whatever treatment is used, it's just less likely with the liquid nitrogen treatment.

[Knoxville]

I wouldn't want liquid nitrogen on my neck, i've had it used on my feet several times that stuff is evil

[Dr. X]

/me drags topic up from the dead...

Me, I can't say that I have any lack of trust in doctors as I'm a strangely healthy person and haven't been to the GP's let alone A+E since moving to England (10 yrs ago now).

As for respect, which is a part of having trust in a doctor, I can't understand lack of respect for doctors in general. I can understand if you have beef with an old GP of yours, but anyone who doesn't respect someone who's been through 5 years of university and continuous training for the next 10 years of their life is beyond my reasoning. I know many doctors (GP's consultants, students; I can appreciate lack of trust in medical students )

The amound of carp that doctors take from unruly, disruptive and violent patients is unbelieveable. That, and the way that they pledged their professional careers to people who alot of the time don't appreciate them.

I almost went into medicine. I look at the options, travelled to conferences and talked to people in the prefession. I decided that I wouldn't have been able to handle it and went into engineering instead.

So please, have some respect for doctors. And nurses.

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(sorry, needed to vent)