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06/10/2009 21:20
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06/10/2009 21:20
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Re: Confirmed Diagnosis
The GPs are gate keepers, you have to get them to agree a referral is needed. Once they do that, yes you are in a good situation the trick is getting them to agree that a referral will be worth the cost.
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06/10/2009 21:27
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06/10/2009 21:27
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To be honest my experience with GPs in the UK has not been good. I was lucky this time that my latest GP knew what DC is. My previous ones had a wide variety of ideas and none thought it worth referring to a specialist.
The ideas included a ganglion, ganglion cyst, white finger, bruising, torn ligament and various others. I FINALLY got a doctor who took it seriously and was willing to refer me to a specialist. That is what I mean by a lottery.
Once you get past your GP from what I have researched it is all good, but getting to this point has taken me 10 years. And with this doctor it took a 2 minute appointment. That sure sounds like a lottery to me.
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06/10/2009 21:30
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06/10/2009 21:30
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BTW never move house!!! Sounds like you have a wonderful GP and really need to keep him/her!
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06/14/2009 21:21
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06/14/2009 21:21
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BTW never move house!!! Sounds like you have a wonderful GP and really need to keep him/her!
Had it not been for this site I'd be hanging around for surgery which is still his preferred option I feel.
I was also told that I couldn't be referred directly to Poole which was incorrect and wasted 6 months so that I ended up travelling in the middle of winter. I had to do the research and fight my corner. I would do that with anyone for anything within reason. He is a great guy but you can find out things they have no idea about: radiotherapy for Dups was a case in point
Cambidgeshire, UK.
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