If you have any worries then see your GP.... so they advise

[Globalti]

My new GP is a rather lovely Indian woman in her thirties. A cycling buddy has been diagnosed with prostate cancer so last time I saw her I asked about the "well man" checkup you are supposed to have and the advisability of a PSA test. She printed off an explanation from her computer to the effect that a PSA test isn't infallible, etc. etc. and asked if I really wanted to go ahead with it. I had a feeling she might offer me a digital prostate examination per rectum, which, I must admit, might have been better done by her than by her hairy old male predecessor.... but she didn't offer one. Damn.

Now I'm trying to think of another reason to go and see her.

 

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 2390351, member: 76"]I train nurses and doctors and all sorts of health people. Last year someone actually wrote in some medical notes "This family would be better off if this pi$$ head, wnaker, alcoholic waste of zarking space either left them to it, or better still dropped zarking dead"[/quote]
Nice!

Presumably, the same caring professional judgement is made about drug addicts, obese people, sunburn victims, self-harmers, couch potatoes with problems due to sedentary lifestyles, failed suicides or anybody else judged to be to blame for their own condition?

(I'm not saying that I wouldn't occasionally feel like that, but I know that I am not cut out for that kind of work!)

 

[mrandmrspoves]

My quack used to be some alternative loon who I don't think really thought medicines were a good thing, one time I went to see him with a persistent sore throat and he told me that chewing whole cloves of garlic was very good for sore throats. Thanks.

Garlic does have very good antiseptic properties so would be good for a sore throat. Huge numbers of germs are passed on by kissing - so taking garlic would reduce the likelihood of getting a sore throat in the 1st place.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I read somewhere that doctors use an abbreviation code to describe patients, wonder if it's true. Why does my doc always put FOAD on my notes?

 

[mrandmrspoves]

I read somewhere that doctors use an abbreviation code to describe patients, wonder if it's true. Why does my doc always put FOAD on my notes?

Certainly doctors used to write all sorts of things in the patient notes.....I haven't seen any such entries for many years and since patients now have the right to request to see their records it is less likely to happen.
Years ago, entries such as NFW - (Normal for Wisbech) were often made in the record under CNS (Central Nervous System)

I also remember reading NDY - Not Dead Yet .....but I cannot recall reading a FOAD!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I also remember reading NDY - Not Dead Yet .....but I cannot recall reading a FOAD!

I made it up.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

.....Doesn't mean they didn't think it!!

 

[mrandmrspoves]

No User76 - FOAD is Much ruder than that! FO And Die!

 

[Hitchington]

I had to see the Doctor last year when I suffered a mental breakdown leading to an extreme form of kleptomania. I walked into the examination room and he was washing his hands at the sink.
"What's the problem?" he asked continuing to wash his hands.
"Well Doctor" I answered, "I have an uncontrollable urge to steal Spanish made cars".
"I'll be with you in a minute" he replied, "please take a Seat"
"ARRRGGGHHH!!"

Any good?

 

[Hover Fly]

[QUOTE 2390546, member: 76"]
Tablets ADT, Tablets Any Damn Thing (for prescription of sugar pills and used to get a patient out of the surgery)[/quote]
In these days of tablets in boxes with the name of the medicine and leaflets inside, is it possible to just prescribe sugar pills without the patient guessing they've been had? The last prescription medicine I had (for piles) came in a tube labelled "THE OINTMENT use as directed", it could have been salad cream for all I knew.

 

[Alun]

My quack used to be some alternative loon who I don't think really thought medicines were a good thing, one time I went to see him with a persistent sore throat and he told me that chewing whole cloves of garlic was very good for sore throats. Thanks.

Chewing cloves of garlic can help prevent many infectious diseases, mainly because nobody goes near you!

 

[Fnaar]

Does MILF mean anything?

 

[mrandmrspoves]

Medicine Ingested in Liquid Form?

 

[TheDoctor]

I asked my doc about one of those, when I'd had a period of ill health, and I got BP check and a blood test (I take statins for high cholesterol.) Weight was taken and inaccurately recorded by nurse, and she made my height 2 inches shorter than I've been for the last 30+years. Total waste of time. And because she recorded my weight and height wrong, I was recorded as borderline obese. Which if you look at me, you'll see is difficult to believe. I haven't been to the doc since, but if the doc brings up the borderline obese thing, I'll suggest the nurse has her eyes tested.

Sounds like an old colleague of mine. He's about 10 stone and 6 foot.
The nurse managed to record his weight correctly, but his height as 6 inches. He was therefore somewhat obese, with a BMI of well over 2500!!
The fact that you can't have a BMI that high didn't seem to register with her...

My personal best with a medic was when my eye went a bit funny a few years back.
She looked, ummed and arred, and said she thought I might have a detached retina.
So she then checked my blood pressure. Which, oddly enough, was sky-high by now...

 

[yello]

re doctor's notes, I was at the dentist once and he dictated to the nurse "patient admitted he has a food trap" . Huh? "admitted"! How is saying that I have a food trap an 'admission'? Struck me as 'cover your arse' language!

I then went on to p*ss him off by not opting for root canal work and asking for the tooth to be removed instead. I think I may have deprived him of a pay day.