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Originally Posted by kestrelx
I have been through the complaints procedure and it is basically a whitewash.
There is this belief in society that just because someone is a GP or Doctor that they know better, in the extreme i say, look at Dr Shipman! Ok that is an extreme. But it shows that people don't question someone because they are a doctor.
Then when you complain they tend to back each other up as do Police and all these organisations.
Anyone see the Channel 4 program Dispatches; Can you trust your Doctor?
Dispatches - Can You Trust Your Doctor? - Channel 4 |
Having worked in the NHS and with many doctors over 30 years of service I would take issue with you on that.
In the past people would
not question their doctor, believing him to have the better knowledge. That just is not the case today.
The general public are far more vocal about their care and the choices they have in that care. Not only that GP's ask your opinion on what is being done.......or at least mine does. In years gone by this would have been unthinkable
If you find yourself in the position of being cared for by a doctor that you have no faith in, then the answer is in your own hands......change your Doctor.
There are good doctors, bad doctors and indifferent doctors.(and some of the indifference is caused by the system -
no continuity, you may see a different GP each time you visit the practice. How can someone have any interest in your care when they don't know anything about you? It isn't like years ago when your GP would deliver you and look after you for the whole of your life. That is the fault of the SYSTEM, not the Doctor)
Harold Shipman was a Doctor who should have been weeded out long before he got to the stage that he did. Being a single Doctor Practice meant that he had no-one monitoring his actions.
I know that there are still single Doctor practices out there but they are in a minority.
I am pretty sure that after the Shipman enquiry recommendations were made about death certification and how this is done.