“Pensavo di vedere un GP non un medico associato – una settimana dopo ero in A&E”
‘I thought I was seeing a GP not a physician associate – a week later I was in A&E’
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“Pensavo di vedere un GP non un medico associato – una settimana dopo ero in A&E”
‘I thought I was seeing a GP not a physician associate – a week later I was in A&E’
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There’s a reason we don’t have pilots associates flying airplanes
Idk how anyone can get them confused they tell you who they are: also any GP can make mistakes also that can end up with bad results.
This is not a surprise.
I have been saying for ages PAs are useless and downright dangerous.
Not a surprise, earlier this year I developed quite a violent rash on my legs, never had anything like it before. Got an appointment with an associate and she basically said I had excema and to go home and moisture
24 hours later the rash has got a lot worse and is across my chest and and shoulders and my lungs feel weird.
Got sent to the same PA and she tried the same treatment, I was pretty insistent (and made to feel like i being difficult) and they eventually conceded to getting a GP for a second opinion.
GP had one look at me and a listen to my chest and gave her a complete WTF look. Long story short I was having a very violent allergic reaction and if she hadn’t spotted it and got me antibiotics immediately there is a decent chance I’d have been struggling to breathe late that night and in a lot more serious trouble.
Hate to think how many people are too meek/polite to stand up for themselves and are sent on their way.
‘A week later I was in A&E’ Considering people attend A&E for ridiculous reasons, that is not as surprising as the headline intends it to sound.
Not to mention, isn’t the natural next step up after seeing a GP, going to A&E most of the time anyway?
I have a lifelong condition that requires biannual check ups. One with doctor one with nurse. Last nurse appointment I had an HCA who needed me to spell out the names of all my medications.
They should be required to finish every sentence with “…but I’m not a doctor”
The NHS doesn’t have the integrity to use them properly.
They are being used as cheap labour in roles they shouldn’t be doing
Just in reading alone one has killed a patient and another core biopsied a liver instead of a kidney
Brutally frank argument – we can’t afford the NHS we actually want or am I being uncharitable? And yes some of the people in here right making critical remarks about this are probably against Junior Doctors getting a pay rise lmao 🤣
The government is doing this on purpose. No matter Labour or Conservative, they’re all about making the NHS worse so people will go to private healthcare. You think it would be common sense that you go to a GP and see an actual GP. I honestly question where our taxes are going!
The NHS is falling apart. I went to A&E after a motorcycle accident and having one side of my ribcage fractured from top to bottom. Waited for 4 hours in agony and barely able to breathe. Finally got a CT scan and the attending gave me two over the counter co codamol and told me to go home and rest. Went home, started to feel like I was suffocating at 4 am, couldn’t get an ambulance as it was a 12 hour wait. Had to get a lift back to A&E where they checked my blood oxygen and ended up in a hospital bed on a shitload of morphine for 6 days.
They’re morons. I took my 85 year old father to the GP to highlight that he’s getting a load of side effects from his prostate cancer treatment. I had done the research, correlated the symptoms, and worked out what bloods we needed.to built a compensatory supplement plan. One of these physician associates rolled his eyes when I tried to accelerate the process by explaining it all clearly to him and I stead made referrals to three different departments for symptoms which were all caused by one therapy, and documented as such.