Dulwich Medical Centre correction

[SteveT]

The second time to write this for administrative reasons.

I went to the DMC having had an appointment and an hour and a half later the doctor walked in from a visit, leaving a queue of people ahead of me. I left and made a new appointment which took several attempts on the phone.

They seem to have lost my complete medical history and I'm not sure what can be done about it.

I have never seen the same doctor twice.

I went in to see a doctor and they somehow overlooked me and got left waiting for an hour so they sent me to see their emergency doctor I think they referred to him, and we had rather a stilted conversation and he had difficulty explaining whether I was talking about my 'front hole' or my 'back hole' which was surprisingly unscientific conversation for an alleged qualified doctor.

[HAL9000]

I suppose it depends on which one were you talking out of on this occasion? (I'm joking, of course :)

[candj]

Sorry you had a bad experience Steve, but your post did make me giggle.

[SteveT]

I seem to be at the 'butt' of peoples jokes, or is that the er back hole?

The quacks grasp of English was at best rubbish.

[cate]

I'd complain to the practice manager and copy it to the GMC. Think the new regime in power is cracking down on doctors who don't speak good English.

[Sue]

Isn't it more likely that the GP didn't want to use medical terminology which a patient might not understand?

[ianr]

I hope he has a more extensive lexicon for his lady patients.

[Tarot]

I think the D.M.C. over the years has deterioated.It focuses on getting quotas of certain tests done.for example I was pretty unwell once, and all that concerned the G.P was wether Id had my flu jab, and had I had a tetnus, . I thought what I had wrong with me at the time was more important. I was briefly looked at and was told to take aspirin; and not to go to the surgery if I thought I had flu, I felt like a pariah, I think it is run to much like a bussiness now, You should see the flash cars those doctors are driving there?

[Marmora Man]

Tarot said

I think it is run to much like a bussiness now

If it were run like a business they might, just, recognise that their patients are their customers / clients and therefore need careful, effective and sympathetic treatment. To me it sounds as if they are running it like an inefficient, semi stalinist, monopoly.

[Sue]

I'm very happy with the Dulwich Medical Centre.

I'm unwell at the moment and I had a very thorough consultation with one of the GPs there last Tuesday.

ETA: I also had no trouble getting an appointment the same day.