quote:Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:
I will be going to my surgery tomorrow and requesting my records and also asking about the formal procedure in making a complaint about a GP.
What's done is done in my case, I'm never going to get the hearing back, but I do NOT want someone else at his practice to go through what I have over the past few years, after all it could be a child one day.
Thanks all of you xx
It was a child one day. That's what happened to my son. My mother said to me one day: "Is he deaf?" I said no, because I had wondered myself and had rattled some rice in a box behind his ears and he turned towards it.
He eventually went to school and completely failed his hearing test. We were staying with a relative, not long afterwards, when he became quite ill. We rang the local surgery who said, bring him in the morning.
The doctor looked at his ears and said: "My God! I have never seen damage to eardrums like this before!" I asked him what he meant. He meant, that since my son was a baby (he was now aged 5 or 6) he had been suffering from untreated ear infections which had damaged his eardrums so much, they were glued to his ears.
Pain is a warning. My son's ear infections must have been pain-free, or else he ignored the pain. Either way, I didn't know he was having ear infections, so I had missed them, and our own doctor had missed them.
After that, I really saw the pattern. In the winter, he would go deaf, but not cry in pain. So I would take him to our doctor, he'd have a look, and prescribe anti-biotics for an ear infection.
He can hear today but there are certain tones and levels he just cannot hear at all.
Pain is a warning. If you had pain and went to your doctor because of your body's own warning system, then you were entitled to treatment and not to be fobbed off.
It's good you will go through your new surgery and go through this process properly because you can also assure the new surgery you have no complaint against them. They may actually be a bit reluctant to help you, standing up for their own, and all that, but don't be fobbed off, and remain calm.
Good luck.