DLA home assessment, diagnoses & general help

diamonds

sh1305 wrote: »

The NHS only do tests they feel are needed - not what you ask for.

They felt the need to xray my leg due to the hard impact my back & head hit leaving fragments of of that surface in me, a reinforced surface, but at the same time in xray dept not a spinal xray which took the initial impact to the reinforced surface ? And not scan of my head ? That sound like a good A&E dept to you ? Now im told I have had ME/CFS since then, they may have stopped me bleeding to death, but unprofessional standards could have made sure I was not unemployable for the rest of my life from the spinal damage.

I was completely naked in the city losing massive amounts of blood after paramedics done their job properly and cut ALL my clothes off before even moving me anywhere from where I was lying, making me stable, and first off I was screaming at top of my lungs & howling crying in pain in A&E when they were sewing my face up and had to do it three times while being held down from 4 or 5 staff and the worst of my injury was my leg not my face.

Perhaps you'd like treatment from my local NHS A&E dept ? With aftercare that cant diagnose ? Even with (skin complaint above) my body from that day going into hyper auto immune with many unconnected symptoms from that day.

GlasweJen

no offence but you don't make any sense. Are you saying that you've had skin cancer and ME/CFS as a direct result of the NHS not giving you a spinal X-Ray in A&E?

You do realise that in A&E they treat the immediate problems and then you are suppose to follow the rest up with your doctor? Example when I collapse and hit my head A&E will check that my head is ok and that I'm not concussed. I need to go to my own GP to work out what's making me collapse as he has my notes and is the best person to see about this.

Indie_Kid

diamonds wrote: »

Perhaps you'd like treatment from my local NHS A&E dept ? With aftercare that cant diagnose ? Even with (skin complaint above) my body from that day going into hyper auto immune with many unconnected symptoms from that day.

You're not the only one whose had to wait for a diagnosis. I was born with 2 rare medical conditions. One took 5 years to diagnose and the other took just under 21 years to diagnose.

Like Jen says - A&E aren' there to diagnose you.

but unprofessional standards could have made sure I was not unemployable for the rest of my life from the spinal damage.

Such as?

kaya

ok, if your thinking of suing the nhs you have got your work cut out, i have a spinal condition that was misdiagnosed by gp's for 20 years, my lower spine is now a shambles which probably could have been avoided with a correct initial diagnoses, the rub is that if i try to sue them for negligence they will simply say "can you prove that your spine would not have degenerated on its own despite our diagnosis?" which i cant, so i cant sue them.
The atos/dwp have no interest in your medical diagnosis whatsoever, all they are interested in is how it affects your daily life and ability to do stuff, if you are being interviewed by atos the best advice is to say nothing, volunteer no information at all, only answer a direct question and do it with a yes or a no, atos know nothing about medical conditions, they are a software company and as such go by your answers to preset questions on the computer screen

dmg24

kaya wrote: »

atos know nothing about medical conditions, they are a software company and as such go by your answers to preset questions on the computer screen

You seem a little confused - the DWP medicals are conducted by ATOS Healthcare, and all assessors are medical professionals.

Your statement is the equivalent of saying Virgin do not know how to fly planes - the people at Virgin Media are unlikely to, but Virgin Atlantic specialise in exactly that.

Benefits_Bod

dmg24 wrote: »

the DWP medicals are conducted by ATOS Healthcare, and all assessors are medical professionals.

I had to smile at this. I am aware from a professional welfare rights advisor of a case where the so-called medical professional was asked point blank what her qualifications were. None whatsoever was the response (after much pursuance of the point).

On a similar tack, I would advise anyone attending medicals and/or Tribunals with medical members on the panel to ask outright for the full name of such persons and for details of their current status in healthcare. If they say "Doctor", for example, it may well be worth checking they are entitled to practice. I am personally aware of a case where a so-called Doctor on a Tribunal panel was not actually legally qualified to practice in GB. Not surprisingly, the Tribunal's decision was set aside and a new hearing arranged (I don't know the outcome).

GlasweJen

Took them 18 years to diagnose me, not their fault just a really obscure condition with no real diagnostic tests to spent most of my time getting tests done to prove that I didn't have something else.

Kind of like ME/CFS really.

dmg24

Benefits_Bod wrote: »

I had to smile at this. I am aware from a professional welfare rights advisor of a case where the so-called medical professional was asked point blank what her qualifications were. None whatsoever was the response (after much pursuance of the point)

Then I trust the claimant complained, as all assessors should be qualified? I do find it interesting that such stories only ever tend to be hearsay, do you have any actual proof of this?

Benefits_Bod

dmg24 wrote: »

do you have any actual proof of this?

I understand the scepticism. However, the source is someone I occasionally assist and the cases were his. There is absolutely no reason to disbelieve him - I wouldn't assist him if I had doubts about his integrity. Further, given the nature of cases I have personally dealt with first hand, variations of this (on a broad theme) are far from surprising - at least to me.

Indie_Kid

GlasweJen wrote: »

Took them 18 years to diagnose me, not their fault just a really obscure condition with no real diagnostic tests to spent most of my time getting tests done to prove that I didn't have something else.

This is what it was like for me. It wasn't until they tested me for something else, that they realised what I had.