Medical negligence Solicitor close to Guildford

Atasas

I would call myself that, just frustrated with doctors able to get rid of problem (or major part of it), but using every single excuse possible not to.

bargainbetty

So your doctors have explained to you that your condition is not suitable for the surgical intervention that you have requested, and you still claim that they are using excuses to not do the surgery? I'd be extremely angry if a doctor let me undergo surgery that she/he knew would not fix the problem. That would be in breach of patient care rules, the Hippocratic Oath and all common sense.

Just because you think it would work, doesn't make it so. And you would never have been able to sue someone because they refuse to perform unnecessary surgery on you. You may find that private surgeons would also refuse the procedure, as your records would indicate you are not a suitable patient.


Try asking them what you should do, instead of telling them.

Atasas

its is different, than what you think (or appears to some of the posters):
Hernia is "only" 4cm big (height) atm, whilst "it need to be 7cm to qualify for NHS surgery"

I've been in-out to doctors and tests for the last 8 years, but lately it is getting worse, where:

Clearly reflux and other symptoms are associated with different problem (acidity) and hernia "only" makes things worse

Where acids irritate oesophagus, DUE to hernia end up as excuse not to do nothing, rather bashing natural acidity regulatory system with more tests and drugs... "elephant in the room" , no?

Alienna

Hmmm... I don't see that as negligence. I had several years of intense stomach pain (like cramps, some attacks lasted 20 minutes, others days - with being sick every hour or so ) I had every test done, in and out of hospital clinics, GP surgery etc, no one could find a cause. Eventually it disappeared. (Oddly, I never had an attack since my last test which was the lovely camera swallowing.)
Fast forward a few years later, and I'm back seeing a doctor, nothing particularly wrong, just a general feeling of bloating and general 'blah'. As it's not the first time, he decides to send me for a scan. Turns out I have gallstones! I'm guessing this was the cause of the pain years earlier... But we'll never know.

However, negligence is what my partner went through - when he was rushed into hospital gravely ill, and then in a panicked attempt to 'fix' him, miscalculated the medication and gave him what could've been a fatal dose. Luckily, as he's part cat, he survived :j

Be persistant with the medical team, they're doing their best, but sometimes people (like me) can be 'difficult' and flummox them. :eek:

Get well soon.

FBaby

Where acids irritate oesophagus, DUE to hernia end up as excuse not to do nothing, rather bashing natural acidity regulatory system with more tests and drugs... "elephant in the room" , no?

Is this your diagnosis (that it is the hernia that is the cause of the acids that irritate your esophagus, or is it your consultant? If yours, then that won't mean much in the medical world, if it is the consultant, then what other treatment is he proposing to reduce the acid?

Atasas

FBaby wrote: »

Is this your diagnosis (that it is the hernia that is the cause of the acids that irritate your esophagus, or is it your consultant? If yours, then that won't mean much in the medical world, if it is the consultant, then what other treatment is he proposing to reduce the acid?

After so many years so many tests, consultations and diagnosis'es... obvious as what I am sure about- One of possibly many, but certain flaw in the system, that is seen clearly by me... call it self-diagnosis, if you like, I call it the main problem, contributing to all of the bad health and "diagnos'es"

Atasas

Alienna wrote: »

Hmmm... I don't see that as negligence. I had several years of intense stomach pain (like cramps, some attacks lasted 20 minutes, others days - with being sick every hour or so ) I had every test done, in and out of hospital clinics, GP surgery etc, no one could find a cause.

Indeed, negligence hardly possible to prove to be such

Same as, (don't expect any-more), glad you got better, doubt I'll get better by myself

Alienna wrote: »

Eventually it disappeared. (Oddly, I never had an attack since my last test which was the lovely camera swallowing.)

I have certainly made the scene:eek:

Alienna wrote: »

Fast forward a few years later, and I'm back seeing a doctor, nothing particularly wrong, just a general feeling of bloating and general 'blah'. As it's not the first time, he decides to send me for a scan.

I had to pay, got my records from hospital, that I couldn't read, what they where saying

Alienna wrote: »

Turns out I have gallstones! I'm guessing this was the cause of the pain years earlier... But we'll never know.

There is chemical intervention (to the best of my knowledge) to sort that, but I am certain, in all of those scans- I must have had gold bladder looked in to

Alienna wrote: »

However, negligence is what my partner went through - when he was rushed into hospital gravely ill, and then in a panicked attempt to 'fix' him, miscalculated the medication and gave him what could've been a fatal dose. Luckily, as he's part cat, he survived :j

Is that a good thing?

Alienna wrote: »

Be persistant with the medical team, they're doing their best, but sometimes people (like me) can be 'difficult' and flummox them. :eek:

Go no choice- got to suffer and hope for the light at the end of a tunnel

Alienna wrote: »

Get well soon.

Thank you very much, indeed

FBaby

Very difficult when you own gut feeling contradicts what the experts say. It's a fact that often, patients do know better and clinicians are being told to listen better to patients' 'instincts'. Saying that, it still remains that in the very vast majority of cases, doctors do know better.

Of course, you still have the option to pay privately, and then have the satisfaction to prove them wrong if symptoms recede shortly surgery.