sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
51 years old and barely seen a Doctor in my life. Few months ago I knock my elbow on a steel post at work - few weeks later could still feel it.
Literally takes weeks to get Doctors appt.
Further weeks to get an X-Ray scan.
More messing when results don’t appear.
Told by Surgery to go to the Hospital and chase myself…….
Eventually with various trips between I sort it out myself 🤦♂️ and am told I’d broken a small piece of bone off as originally thought. Which is now floating around of course.
Doctor texts me offering Physio ! ‘How will that help a broken bone’ ? I ask…
Oh - perhaps I’ll send you to Triage then - he now replies 😳
‘Why do I need Triage - when initial diagnosis was a broken bone. And that’s been confirmed by the X-rays….I now ask.
“APOLOGIES” - I’ll get you an appt with a the Orthopaedic Team 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Who take weeks to write and promise me they’ll ring by a certain date. Which of course doesn’t happen. So I ring them. Not successful conversation - they say they’ll ring back. Of course they don’t….
I then ring them back to be told that “….I’m not urgent and should expect to hear back in 5 months or less” as they have quite some backlog.
I reiterate I’ve had an initial diagnosis from the muscular skeletal specialist. And the broken bone was then confirmed with an X-ray. I ask if this is as quick as I can be seen baring in mind we KNOW this is a broken bone - I don’t need another prod, poke or opinion.
I’m then told: “….that’s the best they can offer and if I have any more issues to go back and see my GP (This was just before the Holidays).
I bet this isn’t abnormal. My various visits to surgeries, appts, local Hospital had my eyes tell me the system is in dire straits.
Luckily; my issue doesn’t hugely hamper me and is just painful at times / locks up now and again.
Anyone else lamenting our National Health Service right now ?
Literally takes weeks to get Doctors appt.
Further weeks to get an X-Ray scan.
More messing when results don’t appear.
Told by Surgery to go to the Hospital and chase myself…….
Eventually with various trips between I sort it out myself 🤦♂️ and am told I’d broken a small piece of bone off as originally thought. Which is now floating around of course.
Doctor texts me offering Physio ! ‘How will that help a broken bone’ ? I ask…
Oh - perhaps I’ll send you to Triage then - he now replies 😳
‘Why do I need Triage - when initial diagnosis was a broken bone. And that’s been confirmed by the X-rays….I now ask.
“APOLOGIES” - I’ll get you an appt with a the Orthopaedic Team 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Who take weeks to write and promise me they’ll ring by a certain date. Which of course doesn’t happen. So I ring them. Not successful conversation - they say they’ll ring back. Of course they don’t….
I then ring them back to be told that “….I’m not urgent and should expect to hear back in 5 months or less” as they have quite some backlog.
I reiterate I’ve had an initial diagnosis from the muscular skeletal specialist. And the broken bone was then confirmed with an X-ray. I ask if this is as quick as I can be seen baring in mind we KNOW this is a broken bone - I don’t need another prod, poke or opinion.
I’m then told: “….that’s the best they can offer and if I have any more issues to go back and see my GP (This was just before the Holidays).
I bet this isn’t abnormal. My various visits to surgeries, appts, local Hospital had my eyes tell me the system is in dire straits.
Luckily; my issue doesn’t hugely hamper me and is just painful at times / locks up now and again.
Anyone else lamenting our National Health Service right now ?