[chav1]

ime glad nurses are trained up to such high standards but a close friend of mine was bounced around peel houses nurses and the stupid appointments system for over 2 years only to find that he had cancer which his specialist said should have been picked up on a lot earlier because the symptoms he was showing were clearly showing somthing was serioulsy wrong yet he wasnt even examined in all those years once because he was told he was just suffering from constipation and sent on his merry way

only after spending a week in agony and blood pouring from his bum was he allowed to see his doctor who immidiatly sent him to a specialist

turns out he had a cancerous tumour and it nearly killed him because he was left undiagnosed for so long as the tumour apparently would settle down for a while and start up again every few months or so but because he believed what he was told it was he just did as he was told and went away thinking he was ok apart from a bit of constipation

if he had been able to see his own doctor his medical records would have shown the same problem reoccuring every few months and investigations could have started a lot sooner as the doctor would be familiar with his case but because he was only seen by the nurses who put his problems down to constipation he was sent away with the advice to eat more fiber or buy some senacot

yes nurses are under appreciated and yes they are good at what they do but please leave the diagnosing to real doctors

i am in no way taking away what nurses do the ones on my cancer ward were very good at been nurses despite been over worked

like i said before the doctors are fine but in my friends case the nurses should not have been diagnosing him as they clearly got it wrong

it probbaly seems that i am calling nurses incompitant which is not the case

i am merely stating my opinion that the doctors are the ones who are paid to diagnose , treat , write prescriptions and do referals to specialists so they should be the only people allowed to do the diagnosing

i too have had cancer and seen the nurses who didnt spot it but the doctor did so please forgive me if i also stick to seeing the doctors

i would highy recomend that if you are not happy with a nurses diagnosis to insist on seeing a doctor just to be safe because if i had relied on the nurses diagnosis i would be dead