How to get treatment?

seven-day-weekend

fred246 wrote: »

I only made the comment about teachers to make you realise that NHS doctors are the same ones as private ones just as teachers in private schools are the same as teachers in state schools. You can have the added assurance that most doctors in the private sector are just there for the cash so you are more likely to be offered a procedure or operation. Why would you opt to pay a fortune for a procedure when the same procedure is free on the NHS? salmon sandwiches afterwards?

Maybe you want things done quicker. Maybe you want the Consultant's personal attention instead of a junior member on his team. Maybe you want to see them at 7.30 at night. Maybe you want a private room for any hospital treatment.

I know you see the same Drs; if my husband takes his NHS appointment, he will still be under he same consultant he paid to see (although he probably will not not see him personally). The consultant himself suggested the NHS appointment.

I'm certainly glad we have the NHS, but I'm also glad there is the option to go private if we chose to spend our money in that way.

Also, it cost my husband £150 to see the Consultant privately and get his undivided attention and a comprehensive discussion of my husband's condition. I personally think that given the Consultant's level of training and expertise, that it is a bargain and money well spent.

The salmon sandwiches, newspapers and proper coffee are nice too

(The private school vs state school teachers analogy does not hold water. Private school teachers do not have to have the same level of qualification as State School ones, so, especially in the cheaper/free ones, you often get lesser qualified teachers. Even so, I am glad the option is there to chose a private school if that is what one wishes).

Loanranger

Fred246, Seven Day Weekend is a well known and well respected member of MSE and you are out of order calling her a liar.

seven-day-weekend

Thankyou Loan Ranger

POPPYOSCAR

fred246 wrote: »

I only made the comment about teachers to make you realise that NHS doctors are the same ones as private ones just as teachers in private schools are the same as teachers in state schools. You can have the added assurance that most doctors in the private sector are just there for the cash so you are more likely to be offered a procedure or operation. Why would you opt to pay a fortune for a procedure when the same procedure is free on the NHS? salmon sandwiches afterwards?

Absolute rubbish.

My BIL had a problem for years,, never sorted by his GP or the hospital.

Finally went private. Consultant was annoyed that the NHS had not sorted it out.

He had an Op that cured the problem within two months.

seven-day-weekend

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Absolute rubbish.

My BIL had a problem for years,, never sorted by his GP or the hospital.

Finally went private. Consultant was annoyed that the NHS had not sorted it out.

He had an Op that cured the problem within two months.

My husband had an operation in Spain for a condition that he had had before and been operated on by the NHS.

Totally different experience. Apart from anything else, they didn't send him home next day still bleeding and with no instructions for aftercare. They kept him in for twelve days until the wound had started to heal. And the condition hasn't recurred, like it did after the British NHS op.

This was Spanish NHS, not private treatment, ten years ago.

As I've said before, I'm certainly glad we have the NHS....but if it supposed to be the envy of the world, why doesn't everyone copy it??

POPPYOSCAR

SDW When I first went to see GP she told me to take Gaviscon.

I then after some time went to the Practice nurse who sent me for chest x rays and blood tests.

These were clear so he put me on Lansoprazole which works brilliantly.

I have to go back in a year so not sure what will happen then, probably if no side affects just keep taking the tablets.

I understand the problem can be caused/made worse by stress and it started after some traumatic events in the family.

POPPYOSCAR

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

My husband had an operation in Spain for a condition that he had had before and been operated on by the NHS.

Totally different experience. Apart from anything else, they didn't send him home next day still bleeding and with no instructions for aftercare. They kept him in for twelve days until the wound had started to heal. And the condition hasn't recurred, like it did after the British NHS op.

This was Spanish NHS, not private treatment, ten years ago.

As I've said before, I'm certainly glad we have the NHS....but if it supposed to be the envy of the world, why doesn't everyone copy it??

I have heard that the Spanish health treatment is excellent and some would say better than our NHS.

seven-day-weekend

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

I have heard that the Spanish health treatment is excellent and some would say better than our NHS.

From our experience, both of hospitals and GPs, I would say so too.

seven-day-weekend

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

SDW When I first went to see GP she told me to take Gaviscon.

I then after some time went to the Practice nurse who sent me for chest x rays and blood tests.

These were clear so he put me on Lansoprazole which works brilliantly.

I have to go back in a year so not sure what will happen then, probably if no side affects just keep taking the tablets.

I understand the problem can be caused/made worse by stress and it started after some traumatic events in the family.

My husband's tablets are esomeprazole, sounds similar. Early days yet, but they appear to be working.

The procedure he has been referred for is to make sure he does not have a hiatus hernia.

POPPYOSCAR

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

From our experience, both of hospitals and GPs, I would say so too.

I think in this country it is a bit hit and miss.

We have had good experiences and the NHS undoubtedly saved my brothers life. He had the most fantastic consultant who operated on his brain tumour and did so within a few days of him being diagnosed.

Other family members and friends have not been so lucky.