Postby rosemary johnson » Mon 10 Aug 2009 4:33 pm
Hi H,
Logging on from the office again quickly, now got keyboard level but see see screen from here.
I think the "new" (now ex-) GP was doing what he was because of incompetance!! - having asked around about him, I've had several bad reports. When the PCT complaints office ask who the GP is and when you tell them, the response is, "Oh, yeah, them!" you get the imporession it is not only me who is unimpressed.
Aklso asked my local councillor, who said he and his wife are officially registered with him, but won't touch him (or his wife who is another partner) with proverbial bargepole after his inaction nearly killed his wife!!! - diagnosed eventually, thanks to official private medicine benefits, as having Addison's disease, nbiow there's a surprise!¬!! COmplaints office at PCT alos suggested Iregister with the new practice elsewhere which I've now done. We wait and see.
It does, actually, give the impression off of being not a happy place - and I've been in waiting room when someone else has been holding forth with great feeling and venokm about lousy treatment to her mother. It was two or maybe tthree practices that merged to move into posh new centre together and I think the merger didn'[t work out too well - the forward-going younger doctors and others from the m ore forward practices haven't, I guess gelled with the other, and the guy who has ended up as senior partner (and his wife) who I was technically on the books of, and probably should retire..... The receptionists don't look happy, the practice manager doesn't look as happy with the way things are going as she might - she agreed with me at one point that "After 690years of the NHS, don't you think that stinks?" and in the end, it was her, I thinnk bending the rules, who gfot me through to Barts. The office staff wto whom I said that refusing to give patients copies of their referral letters was totally unacceptable in 2009 also thoroughly affggreed with me but weren't supposed to say so...! - and it does not take an enven moderately competant office over twice the legaltime limit to make any response to a subject access request (to medical records) under the DPA - and then the practice manager sorted it out by "just doing it" without any authorisation with a medic.......
Think I'm well out of that - and those who can get to keep seeing the good ones from the other merged practices, good luck to them. The old man actually changed my appointmentwith one of them to him, Poaching patients because he can't keep his own??????
Actually "Who do you normally see?" is the normal question by my dentist's reception staff - to which answer is "John". So probably not too un-0sensible a question. But you'd liek to think they would understnad an answer of "No-one, I'm not normally ill" a bit better.
Practice nurse, incidentally, who was the only one I did ever normally see, seemed to think that particular GP might be one who miught respond like that......
I busily hoping Bsarts find out what the probnlem is - and even that the steroid problems might be klinked tothe can't-understand-motion-sensations and even memory problems, and can then get them sorted like that and tell the neurologists what they missed!!!
Ollie is definitely cute, even going black fast - very fast|! His fgeet are growing at the toes and down at the hells already, so the farrrier is going to be taking a look at him on Friday. Farrier's bills already!!!!!
Duke's saddle is withthe saddler being mended (nothing serious, just wear and tear) just as the work has finished and the workmen gone, and the lane has been resurfaced as their last task. SO we can take Duke up the lane without the potholes, stones, grit etc getting in his sore feet. I oput his brdile on and led him othe other day, then yesterday Danny said I was going to rid ehim up the lane bareback...... not the best time to try riding bareback first time ever, when eyes too sore to get lenses in, and loadsa cows and a big scarey bull lookinf at us over the fence from the field next door!
Rosemary
Truth is, Rosemary, we are all concerned about you. None of us enjoys your unfolding saga any more than you do, but we worry even when you are not posting.
