Mar 23, 2010 - comments
I WAITED PATIENTLY FOR TESTS TO BE ARRANGED BY MY NEUROLOGIST SO PATIENT WAS I THAT 5 MONTHS WENT BY BEFORE I MADE A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE WAIT... TURNS OUT MY NEUROLOGIST HADN'T ARRANGED ANY OF THE TREATMENTS HE HAD TOLD ME HE WOULD! I GOT A LETTER ON 4TH MARCH TO SAY APPOINTMENTS HAD BEEN MADE FOR ME TO GO FOR LUMBAR PUNCTURE AND BLOOD TESTS (THESE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE LAST SEPTEMBER AFTER MY APPOINTMENT WITH NEURO THEY ACTUALLY GOT DONE IN MARCH). RECEIVED PHONE CALL FROM NEURO HE WAS RUDE AND OBSTRUCTIVE (ALWAYS FOUND HIM PLEASANT AT MY APPOINTMENTS) BUT WHEN HE SPOKE TO ME THIS MONDAY HE WOULDN'T GIVE ME LP RESULTS...SAID HE DID NOT HAVE MY NOTES, HE WOULD NOT ANSWER QUERIES I HAD RE: TESTS AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS HE WAS ARRANGING AND HIS PARTING WORDS WERE 'I SUGGEST YOU GET ANOTHER REFERRAL- GOODBYE'. ANGRY IS NOT THE WAY TO DESCRIBE HOW I'M FEELING. DO YOU THINK HE KNEW I HAD PUT A COMPLAINT IN ABOUT HIM AND THE DELAY I HAD EXPERIENCED AND HE RANG LOOKING FOR A FIGHT? I THINK SO. I SAW MY GP TODAY AND TOLD HIM ALL THIS, HE KNOWS OF A MOVEMENT DISORDERS NEURO AT ANOTHER HOSPITAL AND HAS REFERED ME TO HIM , HE SAID OTHER NEURO MAYBE DID ME A FAVOUR THIS CHAP IS VERY INTERESTED IN MYOCLONUS SO MAYBE NOW I WILL GET SOME ANSWERS!
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