Any doctor or gp can pick this one up, basically want your perspectve!
a GP's perspective?
I know that asking what gp's think of patients is an impossible question to answer, but I am intrigued as to where on earth and how some generalizations come about, and would love your perspective. Doctors immediately treat women in particular more respectfully than twenty or more years ago, but still some attitudes remain. As a lenient, I have learned never to pinch certain symptoms to some of my past doctors, as they be misconstrued as psycholgocial, yet medically could have be very significant. I learnt never to complain of fatigue, lest depression be suggested, not to talk of chest pain, to hold on to quiet about menstrual problems, prevailing to a 15 year delay before self finally diagnosed with Endometriosis, to never say I be feeling down, despite having conditions which explanation me crippling pain. As a woman I always feel prejudged because of the comments I got, although I have never be diagnosed by a mental health professional as having any mental disorder. Is here a problem in how doctors perceive women? It has lead in my case to decades of my keeping muted about increasingly serious symptoms, because of the early responses. Now things enjoy got so serious I am unable to waddle without a cane. This have led to a whole tentative world of stereotypes. People shout at me like I am elderly or demented, or stare. Strangers ask me what happened to my leg resembling I owe them an explanation, and docors still fnd it necessary to comment on my age and sex etc. I would so like to of late relax in front of my GP, tell them I am down but not depressed, fatigued but because of stomach-ache and related problems, still suffering extensively from the effects of my Endometriosis and other conditions...and maybe this GP would listen and not juge. But I daren't. Past experience and any attempts at protest leading to futher derogatory comments on my transcript have silenced me, and made me fearful of taking the full story to my doctor. I still get chest twinge. I tell nobody. I was a year wager on admitted to hospital with it and an impressive ECG, and then an abnormal ring. But as I was not having a heart attack I be discharged and left to just carry on with things. Now I never mention chest pain to my doctor. I couldn't cope near the 'are you anxious, hysterical, depressed, frustrated..?' conversation. Unfair to him maybe, as he is one of the new equals of more professional patient pleasing types. I have muscle relaxants for another condition, and a short time ago treat it with that. And I am fatigued, beyond belief. And chronic pain and disability own led me to a kind of depression, but again never would I share this next to a GP. It is as if they do not see us as people, just stereotypes and even attention seekers. It is so far from the truth. I would similar to to know where this thinking comes from. I understand medication and doctors are in many ways closed contained by their world from their many years of training, and may not connect with those of us living other lives, but as professionals they come accross to plentiful of us patients as so strange, and without connection to the authenticity the rest of us live in, and so set in their conviction that they are other correct. I know how long it takes to train a GP, and wonder at what point this change happen. So often I witness humane if immature medical students starting out as perchance not the best but good hearted doctors, then somehow developing into registrars and consultants and GPs who enjoy lost touch with the essence of their profession. Is there some blemish in the system, the medical heirarchy? I really want to understand.
Answer: I am not sure if any GP will pick this one up but it sounds close to you are angry at the Medical profession . On the other hand I can see that as well that you weren't deeply persistent with you and agree to a GP tell you that you were OK . You can't be angry at adjectives the medical practitioner and may be you should let it go too . I have a feeling terrible for you , but that is yesteryear and you have to deal surrounded by the now and be more optimistic immediately , who cares what other people deduce what really matters is you and be persistent within your belief . You have an excellent talent for describing things in writing maybe you should be writing about pleasant things that have happen in your life it can't be adjectives doom and gloom . Always look at life the positive means of access no matter how bad they be in the past and some of these symptoms may very well disappear .You may be inspired by reading the autobiography of Steve Hawkins and many others who have suffered a large amount in their life as in good health . Good luck and have a great day .