NHS and it's obsession with fat people
my mum was plump, as most amazing mum's are.

1 day she started being sick alot, got worried, went to the GP. "you're too fat, lose some weight"

2 months later, still being sick, loosing lots of weight. GP says "You're still too fat and you're eating the wrong food"

1 more month later, stomach swollen, being sick, lost a lot of weight "You're eating the wrong food, try keep the weight down"

2 weeks later, a 2nd opinion - "you're got Ovarian Cancer thats now spread to your lungs, stomach and other organs. It's too far gone. If we'd have caught it sooner.........."

GP's - doctors who can't be arsed to do their jobs properly and would rather lance boils for old dears and claim for the minor surgery payments.
(TheManofScience, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 10:11, 1 reply)

This is one of the reasons
I chose my GP surgery, it's got 6 GPs and a policy of encouraging you to talk with different ones. They're mostly quite young and are well aware that they don't know everything.

And I know it doesn't help at all, but given how slowly and asymptomatically ovarian cancer usually spreads your poor mum had probably gone into the "too late" stage before ever seeing the crap GP in the first place. I'm sorry.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 11:05, closed)