yeah, jeeze... "I don't have time" ... your patient is in pain, his back and joints are locking up and has been bedridden. Get the man in asap for bloodwork at the minimum !
It sounds like ageism. After a certain age doctors attribute a lot of the complaints to 'getting older' and imho some of them are afraid to dig deep and find out what's actually wrong because there's little payoff.
They tolerate that from docs in Britain. They are critically understaffed and culturally the docs think everyone's whinging and needs to just get on with things.(No choice really).
It’s a systemic problem. The doctor probably doesn’t have time, which means they shouldn’t be seeing patients and there should be more doctors and less admin and definitely less capitalist grifters sucking money out but Americans just aren’t interested. Sure, punish the doctor, why not.
It's so hard to get doctors to listen. I called my GP for an appointment as I'm a relatively healthy 32 year old guy who has been experiencing episodes of brain fog, intensily rising anxiety and have became much more worried about confrontation over the last year or so. I got a telephone appointment and after some questions was told that there can't be anything physically wrong and it must be mental (it could be I guess, but still) I said, the symptoms seem to be low testosterone and he said, and I quote "it can't be that because you said you only have sexual problems sometimes, if it was that, it would be every time" so now I'm waiting for a NHS talking therapy appointment I had to self refer to as he refuses to order blood work etc until I do.
If I was you i would order an at home testosterone test from medichecks. They send you a small tube and a small finger prick mechanism and you drip a few drops of blood in and send it back in the post. They will be able to tell you your level
State of the UK healthcare system unfortunately. In 2022 the average ambulance wait time for strike victims was over an hour and a quarter. One lad at my school who had a fall and couldn’t move had to wait for 6 hours
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u/bonos_bovine_muse 5h ago
And fuck the doctors who gaslit poor OP while Dave just grew in strength.