I found this to be pretty awful.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/28/widow-forced-verify-husbands-death-video-call-gp-would-not-visit/
Widow forced to verify husband's death on video call because GP would not visit
Woman was told doctors 'don't come out any more' and asked to hold phone camera to the deceased's body
Doubtless all too busy giving the dinghy boys checkups. Next money saving tip is leaflet on DIY amputation for those with severe frostbite from unheated homes this winter.
That's totally unacceptable. :wtf: I hope this is not to become the norm for all GPs. :downvote:
totally and utterly unacceptable
That's dreadful, poor woman.
Now we're no longer receiving medical care, perhaps the Government could look at ways of returning some of the 50 + years of contributions we've all paid ?
fat chance!
As an off topic aside that shows how quirky our language is.
Fat chance is equivalent to zero chance and try as I might at can't think of any other phrase where fat really means zero. I suppose fat head comes closeish.
interesting thought
It is all very sad.. Our doctors are not as they were.. and I don't respect them as I did..
I remember over 50 years ago, when I had a new baby, the family GP popped in on his way home to check that we were ok. I can't see anything like that happening now.
I was at the dentist last year and he said that the GPs should not be getting paid as they were not seeing patients.
Just when I think there can be nothing more appalling than I've already read, up pops this to prove me wrong.
She must have a great camera that's so sophisticated that it can tell the difference between death & a deep coma.
When my wife died her death was certified by Marie Curie nurses & there were quite a few physical tests they had to do.
As it was only a few minutes before New Year's Day it took them about an hour to arrive but I was quite pleased as I spent it sat with my wife.
August 29, 2022, 02:43:21 PMQuote from: Scrumpy on August 29, 2022, 01:11:36 PMIt is all very sad.. Our doctors are not as they were.. and I don't respect them as I did..
Correct, many of them aren't ethnic Brits.
I see that the neither the widow nor GP have been named nor the area identified, which, to me, is a clue.
London GPs haven't made house calls for years and years now. They make it quite clear that the NHS would be far more efficient without the patients. We still have to pay for the NHS the same as better places.
I don't think mine ever go into the surgery either. I haven't seen an actual GP for several years just nurses for blood tests or use the Livi app (video with random GP) if you are actually ill and need some treatment.
They may as well sack the bloody lot of them and outsource it all as video calls to India. Same as most ISP support.
Please to be going to sleep and waking to see if that fixes it.
I'll revise my earlier post to
"They make it quite clear that the NHS would be far more efficient without the patients or doctors".
Perhaps they've started by removing the doctors and are hoping the patient problem will solve itself?
I don't even know who my doctor is.. I have seen a nurse for blood test.. I have to see another for a 'Review ' ..
I am so, so bloody thankful that I am not suffering with an illness.. Because the word 'Suffering' could not be truer..
In the group practice I'm with "my GP" is purely notional. Back in the days when you actually saw one it would be a different one every time. You could in theory ask for a specific doctor but that would have pushed the appointment delay even further on than they already were. I think the trouble was that there were only a couple out of the umpteen possibles where folks could pronounce their names so they were in high demand.
The idea of the family doctor has pretty well disappeared.