So now it's nearly three weeks since I was unceremoniously 'discharged' by my thyroid doc. After I get her letter explaining things, I sent an email in reply, telling her I was not happy being discharged as I've still not had the promised scan. I am not being discharged until I've had one, I need to know what's going on inside. I'm not convinced by her just looking at my neck or her comments that 'your thyroid has shrunk nicely' - it may well have done but are the nodules still there? if not, why am I still feeling all the things I had there BEFORE I had the Radioactive Iodine? I want to go back and see her and that's what I said. This was on 8th March but I was then informed by the secretary that the doctor was on holiday again and would be back on 15th March. I waited a few days after this to give her time to get back in and when nothing had happened by Thursday 18th March I called again. This time the secretary told me the doctor had my email and was 'dealing with it herself' and guess what, it's now Monday 22nd march and still nothing. Bet she forgets. But I've told the secretary that I'll call again in another two weeks if I don't hear anything and failing that, I'll have to get my GP to send me back to her and start the useless messing about in the merry go round system. Apparently now, the hospital I go to has introduced a triage system of appointments - ever heard such rubbish? It goes on though. Now, you get an appopintment but in sinsister overtones further down the letter it says that the appointment date is merely a pending appointment which means it has to be passed by a triage assessment and if they think you are 'seriously ill' enough to see a doctor then you'll see one, otherwise you are, I hate this saying, 'released back to the care of your own GP.' Now, considering the GP is the one referring you to the hospital, what's the point? The point is, they mess around with your health, they pass the buck, by the time you've fought through the system you could be dead (which, secretly I think that's what they want - one more name ticked off the list then). Imagine how much luck I'm going to have getting back in to see my thyropid doc as I've been 'discharged.' Why do these idiots in the administration think this is a good way of saving money, it probably is to them, but they alwyas foregt they are there to serve the patients, not the other way round. All this nonsense comes at the expense of the patients well-being. The last thing I need right now is to go fight this lot to get to see my thyroid doc again, despite her assertions to the contraty that it's easy to come back - oh yeah? - you try it.
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