My G.P is dangerously useless

So many G.P's i have seen are literally useless. I have a place at medical school and i have tried to do indepth study of what a doctor does, and i just can not fathom what on earth G.P's actually learn.

I do not wish to write what my ilness is, but i have been misdiagnoised so many times.

The G.P's answer to every ilness is 'anti-biotics' or 'anxiety', which led to a gross misdiagnosis for me.

I was diagnosed with a condition which the G.P's should have known about, and they had no idea. I may as well tell it to you: SVT, POTS, and a few other ilnesses. They had no idea, were rude to me, misdiagnosed me ect

They STILL did not know what that meant! The consultants offered me no support whatsoever, gave me a medication and said 'use it'.

I am hopefully going to become a doctor,but i must say, 80% of doctors i have seen especially G.P's could have had their job done by a farmer.

All they do is check for the obvious signs, give you anti-biotics no matter what, and then keep you like that and refer you if you get worse. So much for skill?

Is there an organisation i can see to anonymously report G.P surgeries ? Do these G.P's actually get trained properly ? Do we expect G.P's to know too little about too much?

I hope to make money and go private. Seriously, it's one big joke.

Wow.

Are you sure you want to be a doctor?

Get of your high horse, you havent even got to med school yet.

There's incompetent people in every job but likewise there'll be good people. If you're unhappy with a doctor then ask for a different one. If they are all saying the same thing, then I'm afraid it might be YOU who is wrong about the diagnosis.

So many G.P's i have seen are literally useless. I have a place at medical school and i have tried to do indepth study of what a doctor does, and i just can not fathom what on earth G.P's actually learn.

I have been misdiagnoised so many times.

The G.P's answer to every ilness is 'anti-biotics' or 'anxiety', which led to a gross misdiagnosis for me.

I was diagnosed with a condition which the G.P's should have known about, and they had no idea. I may as well tell it to you: SVT, POTS, and a few other ilnesses. They had no idea, were rude to me, misdiagnosed me ect

They STILL did not know what that meant! The consultants offered me no support whatsoever, gave me a medication and said 'use it'.

I am hopefully going to become a doctor,but i must say, 80% of doctors i have seen especially G.P's could have had their job done by a farmer.

All they do is check for the obvious signs, give you anti-biotics no matter what, and then keep you like that and refer you if you get worse. So much for skill?

Is there an organisation i can see to anonymously report G.P surgeries ? Do these G.P's actually get trained properly ? Do we expect G.P's to know too little about too much?

I've always wanted to be G.P due to the relaxed life-style, but i am totally put of. I want to go into medicine to give people answers, to be useful, and i don't think handing out anti-biotics all the time is a good use of my life.

I hope to make money and go private.(as in, pay for my own private doctor as they probably care more)
Seriously, it's one big joke.

So many G.P's i have seen are literally useless. I have a place at medical school and i have tried to do indepth study of what a doctor does, and i just can not fathom what on earth G.P's actually learn.

I have been misdiagnoised so many times.

The G.P's answer to every ilness is 'anti-biotics' or 'anxiety', which led to a gross misdiagnosis for me.

I was diagnosed with a condition which the G.P's should have known about, and they had no idea. I may as well tell it to you: SVT, POTS, and a few other ilnesses. They had no idea, were rude to me, misdiagnosed me ect

They STILL did not know what that meant! The consultants offered me no support whatsoever, gave me a medication and said 'use it'.

I am hopefully going to become a doctor,but i must say, 80% of doctors i have seen especially G.P's could have had their job done by a farmer.

All they do is check for the obvious signs, give you anti-biotics no matter what, and then keep you like that and refer you if you get worse. So much for skill?

Is there an organisation i can see to anonymously report G.P surgeries ? Do these G.P's actually get trained properly ? Do we expect G.P's to know too little about too much?

I've always wanted to be G.P due to the relaxed life-style, but i am totally put of. I want to go into medicine to give people answers, to be useful, and i don't think handing out anti-biotics all the time is a good use of my life.

I hope to make money and go private.(as in, pay for my own private doctor as they probably care more)
Seriously, it's one big joke.

i just can not fathom what on earth G.P's actually learn.

I am hopefully going to become a doctor,but i must say, 80% of doctors i have seen especially G.P's could have had their job done by a farmer.

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Don't you go to Imperial or something?

I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but generalisations and insults are probably not going to help... All GPs I've seen/shadowed have been excellent.

Wow you're arrogant. You're going to have a lot of fun in your clinical years when you're this arrogant to clinicians. They will soon knock this chip off your shoulder

This has to be trolling. If not, have fun getting experience from those rubbish consultants and GPs in your clinical years. If you're not a troll, you're an incredibly ignorant person to think you could do better than a trained professional.

You didn't self-diagnose your condition, you merely thought you had one and happened to be correct. You didn't one-up the doctor because, as he/she should have, they only referred a non-urgent case when it was apparent it wasn't another condition.

They don't have to refer you immediately to be a good GP. That's not how medicine works except in a few instances...

Have you ever considered.... there might literally be nothing wrong with you.

yea,

Doctors a definitely losing their respect in society (by me anyway)

I think they should raise the entry requirements in all med schools from AAA to A*A*AA or something very very hard to get. (only a minority of people in society would get this, which would mean A LOT less donkeys would apply for med school)

This would mean only the academic elites would have the ability to be a doctor ( you may argue that academia is not everything blah blah... shut up. If you are not smart I don't want you deciding what illness I have.)

To be frank, some of the people that went on to medicine at my school were complete dumb asses I wouldn't let them look after my gold fish never mind my health

So many G.P's i have seen are literally useless. I have a place at medical school and i have tried to do indepth study of what a doctor does, and i just can not fathom what on earth G.P's actually learn.

I have been misdiagnoised so many times.

The G.P's answer to every ilness is 'anti-biotics' or 'anxiety', which led to a gross misdiagnosis for me.

I was diagnosed with a condition which the G.P's should have known about, and they had no idea. I may as well tell it to you: SVT, POTS, and a few other ilnesses. They had no idea, were rude to me, misdiagnosed me ect

They STILL did not know what that meant! The consultants offered me no support whatsoever, gave me a medication and said 'use it'.

I am hopefully going to become a doctor,but i must say, 80% of doctors i have seen especially G.P's could have had their job done by a farmer.

All they do is check for the obvious signs, give you anti-biotics no matter what, and then keep you like that and refer you if you get worse. So much for skill?

Is there an organisation i can see to anonymously report G.P surgeries ? Do these G.P's actually get trained properly ? Do we expect G.P's to know too little about too much?

I've always wanted to be G.P due to the relaxed life-style, but i am totally put of. I want to go into medicine to give people answers, to be useful, and i don't think handing out anti-biotics all the time is a good use of my life.

I hope to make money and go private.(as in, pay for my own private doctor as they probably care more)
Seriously, it's one big joke.

There is literally no arrogance in me with regards to this issue. 20% of doctors i shadowed were brilliant. The fact is the majority of doctors (literally) were terrible.

I'll name what they've done:

> Hid a diagnosis from me, when i was 16 and competent.
> Misdiagnoised me so many times
> Started to use religion to patronise me
> Told me to stop coming to the surgery, and then later acknowledged they mis-diagnosed me
> An ENT consultant who i was referred to barely made any checks and was laughing at me, until we pushed him to actually help us.
> Can't even tell me what SVT is, can't give me any help information and support.



Clearly i am not trying to paint them all with one brush, but if you read the news, you'll see that negligence and incompetence, especially by G.P's is a growing issue in the NHS. There have even been under cover documentaries.

We need to stop giving doctors immunity from their actions and start making them more accountable.

So it is far from arrogance, it's concern, perhaps anger too.

Me being a doctor myself is not relevant here. The fact is i have received barely any help or support, and G.P's can't offer me any help , support, or advise for my ilness.

Many of my friends have had similar experiences.

I understand you completely, I am at a loss to explain how pathetic the G.Ps are these days. Only a few months ago my brother broke his leg, went to the GP and got only antibiotics. They said he was fine to go to school, so he went for the whole week walking to and from school on a broken leg. It was only until my mum saw that his leg was turning greeny black that we took him back and forced them to give an x-ray, at which point they discovered he had a broken leg. I find it embarrassing for this country that we put these clueless muppets in charge of our day to day well-being.