Re: having a nightmare with NHS Thanks Margery

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Thanks Margery for sharing your experience it helps me to see I not alone. I guess I'm just worried if anything goes wrong whilst I'm on T3 I won't have any support from a medic and can't get accesc to blood tests etc

Thank you so much for your support

Josie

To: RT3_T3 From: m.escoffery@...Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:04 +0000Subject: Re: Nick-having a nightmare with NHS

Josie, one of my doctors "fired" me as a patient after I told her I was self treating. If she'd come up with an effective treatment, I wouldn't have had to self-treat, would I? My desperation to resort to self-treatment was a direct result of her failure to help me, and she knew it. Nick is right about insecure doctors. I treated my medical problem better than my doctor did, and she just couldn't stand that.Whatever else is going on, doctors have no business shouting at patients. It is unprofessional. If they're worried you're doing something dangerous, they can be emphatic about it, but a doctor who is shouting at a patient has lost control of both himself and the situation.>> > Dear Nick,> > I'm SO sorry to keep bothering you but I have just got back from seeing my GP and he shouted at me and told me how dare I self medicate and pretty much threatened to ban me from his surgery.> > > > Would I be able to send an email to your personal email address to explain a bit more about what happened and ask your advice on how you have handled the NHS over the years? Its just I think I need to be careful as I understand when I reply to the group the content can be seen by everyone and I just don't want to get in any more trouble with the NHS> > > > I would be so grateful if you felt that you would be able to help> > > > Josie > > > > > > __________________________________________________________> Got a cool Hotmail story? Tell us now> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/>

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>Thanks Margery for sharing your experience it helps me to see I not alone. I

guess I'm just worried if anything goes wrong whilst I'm on T3 I won't have any

support from a medic and can't get accesc to blood tests etc

>

You have access to blood tests privately if you wish or you can demand

that the NHS do them and they don't have much choice (but won't want

to do the useful ones).

Private tests can be ordered direct from some labs

http://www.thyroiduk.org/

has a " private tests " item on the menu bar

Nick

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for more information on RT3 and Thyroid Resistance go to

www.thyroid-rt3.com

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If anything goes wrong you are still entitled to treatment on the NHS. Any foreigner that turns up in UK taking a treatment prescribed by a foreign doctor is entitled to treatment on the NHS in the case of an emergency. It is not because you have not been followed by an NHS doctor that you forfeit your right to treatment of any kind. You must stop thinking that you have done something wrong and concentrate on your doctor's obligations to you in his rôle as a public service worker.

You should get someone to go to your next appointment with you if you feel intimidated (best if it's a male member of your family in my opinion!). My sister goes to see my step-mother's specialist with her so it must be possible.

I let myself get pushed around by docs in the beginning of my thyroid problems because I was too fogged up to think straight or even ask questions and I am old enough to be your mother. Look upon this doctor's bad manners as part of a learning process and don't let it get you down. You don't have to put up with this.

Take care and good luck with all this business.

MacG.

To: rt3_t3 Sent: Mon, 15 March, 2010 16:12:27Subject: RE: having a nightmare with NHS Thanks Margery

Thanks Margery for sharing your experience it helps me to see I not alone. I guess I'm just worried if anything goes wrong whilst I'm on T3 I won't have any support from a medic and can't get accesc to blood tests etc Thank you so much for your supportJosie

To: RT3_T3yahoogroups (DOT) comFrom: m.escoffery@ sbcglobal. netDate: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:04 +0000Subject: Re: Nick-having a nightmare with NHS

Josie, one of my doctors "fired" me as a patient after I told her I was self treating. If she'd come up with an effective treatment, I wouldn't have had to self-treat, would I? My desperation to resort to self-treatment was a direct result of her failure to help me, and she knew it. Nick is right about insecure doctors. I treated my medical problem better than my doctor did, and she just couldn't stand that.Whatever else is going on, doctors have no business shouting at patients. It is unprofessional. If they're worried you're doing something dangerous, they can be emphatic about it, but a doctor who is shouting at a patient has lost control of both himself and the situation.>> > Dear Nick,>

> I'm SO sorry to keep bothering you but I have just got back from seeing my GP and he shouted at me and told me how dare I self medicate and pretty much threatened to ban me from his surgery.> > > > Would I be able to send an email to your personal email address to explain a bit more about what happened and ask your advice on how you have handled the NHS over the years? Its just I think I need to be careful as I understand when I reply to the group the content can be seen by everyone and I just don't want to get in any more trouble with the NHS> > > > I would be so grateful if you felt that you would be able to help> > > > Josie > > > > > > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _> Got a cool Hotmail story? Tell us now> http://clk.atdmt. com/UKM/go/ 195013117/ direct/01/>

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