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Author	Zenon_Czosnek
Comment	Almost right, except what you say is a complete bullshit. First, I was dismissed in A&E twice by junior doctors, despite that my two experienced GPs were concerned. I was literally sent back to A&E again because they believed I should get some imaging and GPs are unable to arrange that themselves. Then the one I stuck with for the rest of my ordeal, the more experienced one, told me to see real doctors and advised me - as an expert on how NHS works, after all he was part of it - that I won't get proper treatment on NHS anytime soon and to seek help elsewhere. So basically it's not me who dismissed experienced British doctor, it was an experienced British doctor who dismissed junior British doctors and told me I should look specialist help, which I won't get from NHS on time. So I did, and got help. My treatment was supervised by my British GP who was quite impressed with the level of insight and skillfull choice of meds they proposed for me... It took me 11 months to get back on track (despite that, as you call it , well educated British doctors told me I will be ok in few days, two weeks max) and then when I was almost healthy again I finally got my urgent appointment with an NHS specialist. Because for NHS, apparently, urgent means 50 weeks. No wonder that by this time I wasn't really in that much need of urgent help anymore, don't you think? My Polish doctors (or should I say, doctors in Poland, as only one of them was Polish) assessed my condition right, told me what to expect (and were bang on, as some synptompts weren't present yet when I saw them) and told me I will need at least a year to get back, which proved true (I got back to work in 11 months, but it took a few months more for everything to get back on track). Furthermore, now o get an expert opinions for my court case from a well respected Scottish experts (at least one of them is one of the top in his fields) and they also agreed with me that I haven't been given sufficient help on NHS and that I was right to seek help elsewhere. The bottom right is: the A&E staff dismissed a patient with serious issue after just a brief and basic examination, despite that he was back to them on advise of his GP when his synptompts got worse instead of disappearing as they predicted. Yet, they thought it's not necessary to look closer if he might be the case when taking paracetamol and lying down for a few days might not be sufficient. But you know better. Because if facts show that NHS, despite deeply held belief of British people, might not always be up to its (held mostly by Britons, because Europeans who actually have experience with health services in other countries often don't agree) opinion that it is The Best Health Service In The World, then the facts have to be dismissed, and person who brought them up ridiculed, so your British pride remains unharmed, right?
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Created	Sun 13th Jun 2021 3:13am
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Almost right, except what you say is a complete bullshit.

First, I was dismissed in A&E twice by junior doctors, despite that my two experienced GPs were concerned. I was literally sent back to A&E again because they believed I should get some imaging and GPs are unable to arrange that themselves.

Then the one I stuck with for the rest of my ordeal, the more experienced one, told me to see real doctors and advised me - as an expert on how NHS works, after all he was part of it - that I won't get proper treatment on NHS anytime soon and to seek help elsewhere. So basically it's not me who dismissed experienced British doctor, it was an experienced British doctor who dismissed junior British doctors and told me I should look specialist help, which I won't get from NHS on time.

So I did, and got help. My treatment was supervised by my British GP who was quite impressed with the level of insight and skillfull choice of meds they proposed for me...

It took me 11 months to get back on track (despite that, as you call it , well educated British doctors told me I will be ok in few days, two weeks max) and then when I was almost healthy again I finally got my urgent appointment with an NHS specialist. Because for NHS, apparently, urgent means 50 weeks. No wonder that by this time I wasn't really in that much need of urgent help anymore, don't you think?

My Polish doctors (or should I say, doctors in Poland, as only one of them was Polish) assessed my condition right, told me what to expect (and were bang on, as some synptompts weren't present yet when I saw them) and told me I will need at least a year to get back, which proved true (I got back to work in 11 months, but it took a few months more for everything to get back on track).

Furthermore, now o get an expert opinions for my court case from a well respected Scottish experts (at least one of them is one of the top in his fields) and they also agreed with me that I haven't been given sufficient help on NHS and that I was right to seek help elsewhere.

The bottom right is: the A&E staff dismissed a patient with serious issue after just a brief and basic examination, despite that he was back to them on advise of his GP when his synptompts got worse instead of disappearing as they predicted. Yet, they thought it's not necessary to look closer if he might be the case when taking paracetamol and lying down for a few days might not be sufficient.

But you know better. Because if facts show that NHS, despite deeply held belief of British people, might not always be up to its (held mostly by Britons, because Europeans who actually have experience with health services in other countries often don't agree) opinion that it is The Best Health Service In The World, then the facts have to be dismissed, and person who brought them up ridiculed, so your British pride remains unharmed, right?