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byRichard_at_work ( 517087 ) writes:
in the UK for the NHS, and her position on this has always been that patients want you to diagnose them with something, and if you do not then they will re-present either to another doctor at your practice very quickly, or at the local accident and emergency room. And last month she was provided with the best example of this ever...
Ever since I met her, she has complained to me (in a friendly way) that people present to the A&E (she was working A&E minors at the time) with conditions that 30 years
byAnonymous Coward writes:
I am not a doctor.
Prescribing some oral rehydration liquid for the D&V would have done no harm. It would possibly have prevented them from going into A&E and wasting doctors time. Never mind that you can buy it without prescription or mix your own as they teach people in developing countries.
byRichard_at_work ( 517087 ) writes:
They get told that - but they don't get it prescribed unless they are on income support. The prescription charge here in the UK is north of 7GBP an item, while rehydration salts cost a couple of quid for half a dozen sachets.
But D&V victims usually do not need rehydration drinks, they need to work the bug through their system - most people are nowhere near dehydrated when they think they are.
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bytkprit ( 8581 ) writes:
when really she was concerned for her kid. Maybe overly so ;) but she obviously wasn't getting satisfaction. My mother used to HAVE to give me something if I had even a simple cold. It's a thing; she was overprotective or whatever. But when her doctor wouldn't give her something for me or my sister, she'd go to the pharmacist, who'd whip her up something that knocked us out good for days (LOL, like paregoric), and she'd feel like she'd been a responsible parent. Where's the harm in that?
That's part of a PCP
byRichard_at_work ( 517087 ) writes:
The problem is (aside from Slashdots fucked commenting system) is that this patient DID NOT BELIEVE ANYONE SHE SPOKE TO despite them all giving her exactly the same advice and information. And in doing so, she wasted her GPs time, an A&E doctors time, an A&E consultants time, a paediatric doctors time and god knows how many peoples time at the other A&E department. And all of those people have waiting lists, admitted patients and other things that could have been handled if she had not reject
bymisexistentialist ( 1537887 ) writes:
Getting a second opinion isn't unreasonable. Colleagues called in by a doctor might not seem like a second opinion, since they might automatically support her. The parents were probably panicking, but a doctor saying that there is no problem until 5 days without water or food would not indicate a great deal of concern to most people.
byGordonjcp ( 186804 ) writes:
In Scotland, prescriptions are free. Even in England and Wales, though, £7 is better than the pick-a-number prescription pricing in the US. You also get free prescriptions if you're a pensioner or unemployed - good luck with that in the US's third-world cash up front healthcare system.
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