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General practitioners (UK)

I love this. I hate Drs touching me and having to go in to the den of bacteria and arrogance. Telehealth all the way.
 
Aspergers_Aspie said:
See your patients online before in person, GPs told | News | The Times

With regards to this story. On today's Good Morning Britain TV programme Dr Hilary Jones GP said that he had concerns about this.
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I last saw my GP online, she didn't need to examine me, just refer me for a scan.

Online is more awkward as I would normally hand her a bullet pointed note for her to read, online I had to talk.

I am reassured that, should she need to examine me or look at something not easily visible online, she would see me face to face.
 
Here's an awful story where a Dad has been 'shrugged off by five GPs' and he was wrongly advised. I know sadly when I tried to get an autism diagnosis it was on my third attempt with a GP that I got a referral and college support were going to go with me, here's a link to the story link
 
A lot of MDs time gets wasted by unimportant stuff.

Online with nurses always devolves into them saying "no" unless the patient is clearly very ill, so it's a "bean counter's" solution that pushes most people away without helping them.

Actual MDs online would help, because they won't evolve into NPCs with a script, which is what bureaucrats force nurses to become. MDs have to take responsibility, so they'll be less likely to turn sick people away.

People will still "play the system" of course.

But people who waste the resources of public services, like most people who ruin good things for other people, are a smallish minority on the far end of the bell curve. (Ditto violence (including SA), theft, fraud, etc - human behavior usually fits a bell curve).

But calls to an MD will be recorded. Repeat time-wasters will become visible. So on balance I'd expect it to be a win for efficiency, and good for the "non-whiner majority"

Sadly "toxic compassion" and the idiotic use of exceptions as if they were general rules can ruin almost anything, certainly including this.
 
At the GP practice I was at before my current one, my GP asked me if it was in my imagination that people were rude to me, I said one reason I drink is people being rude to me. I know fellow aspies have had bullying as adults so I am unsure why he asked me that
 
I would be very careful when being subscribed meds by a doctor!! My mental health nurse at my GP surgery told me that I was given the incorrect dose of one of my meds. I am very annoyed about the medication situation I understand that people make mistakes but a doctor I think has more of a responsibility to get things right as people's health is in the question, I have had suicidal feelings and potentially I could have attempted suicide as a result of not getting the benefits from the higher dose and from the sadness of not receiving the correct dose.
 
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