needing abit of help.

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

I've just found this thread. Hopefully your hubby will be better in a week and your GP is right. I hope you are both feeling a bit better.

[Nicos]

cor- fingers crossed all will be well!!

[Jax]

Yeah feeling abit better. To be honest I dont really have a great history with the doctor. We have seen him twice in 2 years. This time he was fairly helpful but the time before he seemed to just be trying to push medication on hubby that he had already been told by a specialist he didnt need. Just keeping everything crossed that this works.

[Littlemouse]

I used to work in the eye unit section of a hospital. We had a doctor who was there specifically to see eye injuries and eye problems - it was in effect an emergency eye service. Do you have anything similar in your area? If so, I would ring them.

[Jax]

Right well a week later we seem to have gotten nowhere! Spoke to the doctor again today and he just said "the next step would be the hospital and as you wont go there its not my problem!!!" This has infuriated me because, 1 Its not a choice that hubby cant get to a hospital its a disability and 2 I would never expect a doctor to be so rude 3 this has upset my husband and caused him to have a full blown panic episode and finally 4 as his patient surely anything medical is his problem!! Now speaking to nhs direct and pals and to be honest anyone that will talk to us. He didnt even say whether conjunctivitis is now ruled out, if sometimes it just takes abit longer to heal than he initially said. I am thinking of calling him back to get these details as hubby was the one that spoke to him but I feel I should calm down first as I dont think me shouting is going to help anything.

Sorry rant over lol

[organic]

I'm not sure how you or your husband feel about it - but I'd strongly suggest playing the disability card. If you've got the "elderly" card too - play that one as well.

I've got an elderly, disabled neighbour and she's a bit too nice sometimes, but when she plays the "elderly and disabled" card - especially in winter - things start to happen.

If your doctor insists on being an idiot about it - you might want to consider talking to the local press and explain what's going on. If it's a slow news week or they see themselves as a champion-of-the-people kind of paper - they might be glad of a "GP neglect of disabled (elderly) patient shocker" type story.

Maybe contact your MP. I know it might not be an immediately obvious course of action - but if they are a scratch above the usual rank of "useless" they might be able to put their weight behind things too.

I'm almost as far from being a lover of "the state" as you're likely to get, but considering you, (possibly he at some point) and the rest of us have paid for the bad joke that is the NHS - it's only right that you should scream and shout until you get your way.

By the sounds of it you've got an insensitive, incompetent GP who has no business being a healthcare professional.

If I were in your shoes I'd be kicking up a real stink about it all... but I'm pretty confrontational when things are as clearly unacceptable as they are in this case... you may well be different.

Good luck, whatever you decide to do.

[Polly Fouracre]

I hope all goes well. I often think folk would be better off calling the vet.!!!

[organic]

They'd almost certainly get quicker, and probably better service if they did!

[Jax]

Yeah I wouldnt disagree there. I love coming on here for advice. I dont come on as often as I would like but your all so wise. Im only 22 so quite often when these things come up they can be completely over my head.

[janeyo]

Obviously I am not in your husband or your shoes, but if it were my OH and this had happened to him whatever his disabilty was I would somehow get him to a hospital. This is now where he needs to be. There are specialist teams of ambulance workers trained to get all kinds of shapes and sizes and people in all sorts of conditions, into the ambulances.

Thinking of you and hope you get seen and sorted.

I think the doctor is entitled to (RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY) to wash his hands of the patient if they refuse to take his advice and go to hospital.
Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but if he has said in his opinion that is where your hubby needs to be then he has said if for a good reason.

Good Luck and let us know how you get on. X

[Jax]

He didnt say it was where he needed to be but he said because he simply didnt know it would be the next step would be to pass him to an expert. We have an optician booked for the 23rd. If there were ever the actual need to get him to hospital then trust me in the fact he would be there one way or the other.

[janeyo]

He didnt say it was where he needed to be but he said because he simply didnt know it would be the next step would be to pass him to an expert. We have an optician booked for the 23rd. If there were ever the actual need to get him to hospital then trust me in the fact he would be there one way or the other.

That's good, sorry if I sounded a bit harsh, but you only get one pair of eyes!

[Jax]

Yeah, see the problem is we have to be selective here. The very process of an agoraphobic being torn from there house that is there "comfort zone" could cause a whole host of other problems. It could actually potentially cause more problems than were initially there. Thats why we have to gently step by step get him out and about again. Therefore to take measures such as a paramedic sedating him then taking him to hospital has to warrant such actions. Does that make sense?

Normally he would have been in A&E long ago but because of the nature of his illness it becomes much more complicating.