Not even a Sorry.

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Saying sorry used to mean something, when it carried an acknowledgement of fault or blame with added contrtition. Now an apology can be made that isnt an admission of liability and so is pretty is meaningless. In bods case you wouldn't find an individual to say sorry because the nhs doesn't gave a procedure for it, and even if they did how do you apologise for a stated possible side effect. Gone are the days when a little human empathy went a long way. I wish you well in your recovery bod.

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You can request your GP update your settings so you can see any blood test results in the NHS app. Very useful if you like that.

You can also request to see all the letters and results that relate to you, but a lot of GPs don't like doing it.
 
My GP managed to misdiagnosed Pneumonia as a cold...when I woke up in intensive care one weekend as a surprise, I had just got out of bed and that was that , how I laughed with the consultant when he asked why had I not noticed that I was seriously ill...my GP did say sorry but 12 years later I still have to take the lift if its over 1 floor, walks must be on flat and I am a wee bit concerned for later on as its not got better, so the GP apologizing really didn't make anything any better...

My health is my responsibility is the attitude I take now....something wrong see a gp, does not clear up go back. Change GP to one that does the get in before 10 and you wait to bee seen....two weeks for an appointment and then its a telephone call wtf.
 
I've had awful and awesome doctors. Youngish are often better.
I had a problem some time ago, and didn't know whether to go private or not.
A locum GP I saw at the time said I had, at worst, the choice between the incompetent and the corrupt. That phrase has stuck with me.

Case in point though, I was sat in a private doc's about something, where you get a 20 minute appointment. He had his blood results and whatnot, and he said "hmm let me think", sat back and took ages reading notes. Very unlike an NHS GP.
I'd had the basic problem for years. He made a list of possibles and started asking a load of questions. He said he didn't know for sure what it was. He said he'd work through, so I thought he was just pushing the bill up. First he sent me to his specialist mate down the corridoor. I was completely suspicious, but he was right - something nobody else had considered, proved to be it. Sorted. I wouldn't have got there on the NHS.

Similar thing happened with a humble vitamin. A consultant saw the number - near zero, and told me I'd need a cocktail to put it right, not just the vitamin because it wouldn't be absorbed. She'd write to my GP. GP knew nothing of needing a cocktail, so referred to the NICE advice. Just the vitamin, it says. I'd looked it up, and 2 other things are recommended as advised by consultant. GP said I could buy them but she couldn't prescribe them. WTF!!?? Then there was a tetchy letter from the consultant. I did buy the extras - cheap enough.

Saw a GP-surgery-based physio about an arm problem. After 20 mins, she diagnosed golfer's elbow. I didn't think it was. I looked it up, and found what seemed more likely. (UCL)
I went to another consultant about a hand problem and the proposed slitting of my carpal tunnel cartilage, so told him about the golfer's elbow diagnosis..
In 10 seconds he said the arm problem wasn't 'golfer's elbow', obviously.
Another minute and he said he didn't think cutting the carpal ligament would help with the hand. (Tried a steroid as a diagnostic, not expecting it to do anything, and it hasn't).
So, two more misdiagnoses from the GP.

I compared with other hand.... I said I realised they weren't connected.
"Of course not", he says, "this is the NHS".
My health is my responsibility, is the attitude I take now.
A good attitude, I think. I find it helps to communicate if you're somewhat informed, on at least the basics They can in two sentences give you a mass of information you'd never have understood as a typical patient. You can ask things. too. And they remember you.

@Bod ... Those other Liver Function test indicators I didn't remember are ALT, ASP, ALP and CGT as here.
Ask the docs how they (especially ALT) were affected and how they're returning to normal, or otherwise.
Hope you recover, I expect it'll take effort on your part. Prod for frequent tests!
 
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I had pneumonia last March taken to local hospital after a couple of days going backwards was eventually transferred to a specialist unit at Nottingham City hospital.
Young doctor decided to ask 'let's hear your work history '
I could hardly speak at this point when I mentioned sometime welder eyes lit up !
Moves you into a different category apparently nhs should have traced me years before and offered pneumonia jab.
Out of hospital 10 days got back to work about 8 weeks later still not 100% if I do a really hard day takes several days to get over it.
 
Metal Fume Fever. Inhaling Metal Oxides or metal fumes that basically sit in your lungs and mix with the H2o.

 
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