Ah newsnight. Running a story based on an unqualified self report that is inflammatory but hides that the real report is not yet compleat.
They are not even trying to hide that they want what little GPs remain to quit.
The odd thing here is that no one seemed to look at the notes.
Any one of those diagnosis is a reasonable starting point for the symptom presented (in my totally untrained opinion). But all of them in succession? In a young man?
This is shocking and their should be a bigger uproar about things like this.
Mistakes are made in medicine, we accept that. But a huge catalogue of errors like this, and no real accountability.
Sure, this report will be published, but it doesn’t give any confidence anything will actually change.
Refusing to see him after the negative test… 🤦🏼♀️
Scary reading this, could very easily have been me. I ended up with severe pneumonia and pleurisy after a cough and fever that had dragged on for weeks and some ineffective antibiotics proscribed after a telephone consult. Luckily I did make a fuss and manage to get a face-to-face at which point they listened to my chest and sent me straight to hospital, where I stayed for 11 days!
1) Tested negative
2) Blood tests cancelled for fear he had covid
3) Asked to retest for covid
Even just the chronology of this isolated sequence is confusing.
>The surgery, in Leeds, said it could not comment ahead of an inquest.
As you would expect.
>”I have no formal medical training other than first aid,
As his father said.
>An inquest into David’s death, scheduled for early next year
Yes?
This is a quote from the internal probe according to the (shudder) daily mail ‘a face-to-face assessment should have been offered or organised’.
They ran an internal probe and found themselves wanting…
As a doctor I read this and cannot avoid raising concerns. Not only about the risks of telephone consultations. But the overall approach of that practice. A patient who keeps getting new symptoms and calls back repeatedly, should be seen, for me after the second call for sure. Blood in urine in a male patient without clear cause is not common, even if it is a urine infection there are usually underlying reasons for it, comparing to women. Generally there were red flags that were ignored.
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Ah newsnight. Running a story based on an unqualified self report that is inflammatory but hides that the real report is not yet compleat.
They are not even trying to hide that they want what little GPs remain to quit.
The odd thing here is that no one seemed to look at the notes.
Any one of those diagnosis is a reasonable starting point for the symptom presented (in my totally untrained opinion). But all of them in succession? In a young man?
This is shocking and their should be a bigger uproar about things like this.
Mistakes are made in medicine, we accept that. But a huge catalogue of errors like this, and no real accountability.
Sure, this report will be published, but it doesn’t give any confidence anything will actually change.
Refusing to see him after the negative test… 🤦🏼♀️
Scary reading this, could very easily have been me. I ended up with severe pneumonia and pleurisy after a cough and fever that had dragged on for weeks and some ineffective antibiotics proscribed after a telephone consult. Luckily I did make a fuss and manage to get a face-to-face at which point they listened to my chest and sent me straight to hospital, where I stayed for 11 days!
1) Tested negative
2) Blood tests cancelled for fear he had covid
3) Asked to retest for covid
Even just the chronology of this isolated sequence is confusing.
>The surgery, in Leeds, said it could not comment ahead of an inquest.
As you would expect.
>”I have no formal medical training other than first aid,
As his father said.
>An inquest into David’s death, scheduled for early next year
Yes?
This is a quote from the internal probe according to the (shudder) daily mail ‘a face-to-face assessment should have been offered or organised’.
They ran an internal probe and found themselves wanting…
As a doctor I read this and cannot avoid raising concerns. Not only about the risks of telephone consultations. But the overall approach of that practice. A patient who keeps getting new symptoms and calls back repeatedly, should be seen, for me after the second call for sure. Blood in urine in a male patient without clear cause is not common, even if it is a urine infection there are usually underlying reasons for it, comparing to women. Generally there were red flags that were ignored.