Doctors

[Hibbychick]

Broke my left thumb last week and when I took the dressing off, I decided to go to the doctors to make sure everything was healing as it should. He took a quick look at my injury and was offered me a sick line for six weeks (would have been nice if I wasn't already on 6 weeks school holidays :brickwall)

Anyway, I have minimal disability (I am right handed) and not in any pain but was amazed at how quickly I was being offered a sick line without any questions being asked about the job I do or if I was able to continue doing it.

Is it normal practice for doctors to hand out sick lines so easily?

[Betty Boop]

Broke my left thumb last week and when I took the dressing off, I decided to go to the doctors to make sure everything was healing as it should. He took a quick look at my injury and was offered me a sick line for six weeks (would have been nice if I wasn't already on 6 weeks school holidays :brickwall)

Anyway, I have minimal disability (I am right handed) and not in any pain but was amazed at how quickly I was being offered a sick line without any questions being asked about the job I do or if I was able to continue doing it.

Is it normal practice for doctors to hand out sick lines so easily?I wish! Not at my Doctror's,I never get offered a sick line, think you would need to be at death's door! :bitchy:

[Little Miss Perfect]

Not normal at my GP either, maybe he just assumed it would affect you doing your job due to your injury :dunno:

What a bummer your on holiday though eh :greengrin

[LustForLeith]

I once done my back in and was signed off. Kept getting signed off every two weeks. Eventually my doctor told me jsut to phone up, ahve a wee chat with them, if it was still sore then I'd get signed off again. No examination needed!:wink:

[Hibbychick]

Not normal at my GP either, maybe he just assumed it would affect you doing your job due to your injury :dunno:

What a bummer your on holiday though eh :greengrin

:agree: Still things could have been worse, They were talking surgery and plastercast up to my elbow at one point. Don't think I could have coped with that! :no way:

[Sylar]

:agree: Still things could have been worse, They were talking surgery and plastercast up to my elbow at one point. Don't think I could have coped with that! :no way:

Funny, I had a microscopic fracture on my right hand, just below my knuckle on my pinkie last summer - they sent me to Ninewells hospital (after my boss at work looked at it and said "run it under the cold water tap and see how you get on - no coincidence he's no longer with us) and they completely plastered my arm to my elbow! I went back in the next day (to get a full assessment and relayering of the cast) and the doctor looked at me and asked "why the hell did they put a full cast on your arm!?" - even Doctors seem to do things subjectively!

[EskbankHibby]

Doctors (in particular G.P.'s) have to know a little about a lot unless they have a clinical interest in a specific area.

The Doctor who signs you off for 6 weeks with a simple finger fracture which is not affecting you functionally is just erring on the side of caution.

The problem is that you have other doctors who, unfortunately, like you to present with your severed head under your arm before signing you off or referring you on for appropriate care.

Both extremes have their own set of problems in terms of the management of any problem (particularly musculoskeletal problems like fractures).

Like most things the key to success is competency and consistency. In other words find clinicians who are good at what they do and are effective communicators.

[greenlex]

Remember busting my ribs playing Fitba. Straight into doctors and he asked how long I wanted to be signed off for. This was several years ago when I was still at school aged 14!!!!! I was a big Laddie even then but It seemed to be the norm. Nothing changed it seems.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Broke my left thumb last week and when I took the dressing off, I decided to go to the doctors to make sure everything was healing as it should. He took a quick look at my injury and was offered me a sick line for six weeks (would have been nice if I wasn't already on 6 weeks school holidays :brickwall)

Anyway, I have minimal disability (I am right handed) and not in any pain but was amazed at how quickly I was being offered a sick line without any questions being asked about the job I do or if I was able to continue doing it.

Is it normal practice for doctors to hand out sick lines so easily?

I think they tend to make an appraisal of the patient and make a judgement, based on things like age.

On the other hand, he probably thought that you were at the ham coming to the surgery with a minor injury, and to save all concerned the embarrassment of going through the "how badly are affected" charade, went straight to the sick note option.

By the way, what do you call someone with the lowest pass mark at medical school?




















Doctor.

I'll get my sphyngometer. :offski:

[Hibbychick]

I think they tend to make an appraisal of the patient and make a judgement, based on things like age.

On the other hand, he probably thought that you were at the ham coming to the surgery with a minor injury, and to save all concerned the embarrassment of going through the "how badly are affected" charade, went straight to the sick note option.

By the way, what do you call someone with the lowest pass mark at medical school?

Doctor.

I'll get my sphyngometer. :offski:

I had already mentioned to him that I was advised to get it checked out by someone from NHS 24!

Are they similar to sphygmomanometers? :wink: :greengrin

[Phil D. Rolls]

I had already mentioned to him that I was advised to get it checked out by someone from NHS 24!

Are they similar to sphygmomanometers? :wink: :greengrin

Probably - this hypertension must be affecting my ability to concentrwaRT.

[Golden Bear]

Doctor ? - what's a Doctor?

It's almost impossible to see your own doctor in my neck of the woods.

There's normally a three to four week waiting time before you can get an appointment. Most ailments can be cured in that time so you don't bother - maybe that's part of their master plan!


:greengrin

[LunaJLHsauzee]

My Doctors brilliant.

Went to visit him once when i was 16, had been having problems with my knee for quite a while.

His first words?

"Come back in a few weeks and we will see how it is"


Fantastic:greengrin