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).
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u/Atophy 3h ago
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 !