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31 Oct 17
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Five years ago, my son in law had a kind of "fluttering" in his heart.
Went to the doctors who listened to his heart for twenty seconds and was told he was fine.
A few weeks ago, he had a sensation that his heart kept missing a beat, so this time he was referred to a cardiologist, and got hooked up to a twenty for hour monitor.
Now confirmed that he has "supraventricular tachycardia", and will either have to undergo surgery, or be on drugs for life.
Why, and how, do doctors get it wrong so often, and not be brought to task (this is the third incident which has occurred to my family)?
Went to the doctors who listened to his heart for twenty seconds and was told he was fine.
A few weeks ago, he had a sensation that his heart kept missing a beat, so this time he was referred to a cardiologist, and got hooked up to a twenty for hour monitor.
Now confirmed that he has "supraventricular tachycardia", and will either have to undergo surgery, or be on drugs for life.
Why, and how, do doctors get it wrong so often, and not be brought to task (this is the third incident which has occurred to my family)?
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Five years ago, my son in law had a kind of "fluttering" in his heart.
Maybe he was fine when examined. A lot can happen in 5 years. There seems to be an expectation that Doctors should cure everything and if not should be punished. |
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A GP is, in the main, a doctor who knows a bit about a lot. In general with big problems they direct you to the place to get treatment. It's not surprising they get lots wrong really.
The alterative is seeing a heart specialist right away when you have a problem....would be impossible on current numbers, so not much you can do really. Of course if you have the cash, see the heart specialist virtually straight away, for a couple of hundred, it's money well spent really. |
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Ah, how knowledgable does a doctor have to be to understand if someone has a faulty heart ?
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I've had similar symptoms to your son in law. Missing heartbeats, strange sensations, I've been awoken at night with serious palpitations. I've been hooked up to ecg machines and listened through a stethoscope, blood pressure taken and they can find nothing wrong. They've even put it down to panic attacks which I've never suffered from.
I do believe I'm a heart attack waiting to happen. That'll teach 'em. |
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now of course you may have to go to a specialist to get it fixed , but it shouldn't be too much to expect that the GP would be able to see that there is something wrong with something as basic as that.
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Walking down the street about a year ago my heart started going like the clappers I felt faint and clung on to a lamp post. Nothing since, I really can't be arsed to go to the Doctor.
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Why, and how, do doctors get it wrong so often
What makes you sure they've got it right now? supraventricular tachycardia is a fast resting pulse rate, usually over 100 beats per minute. You can take your pulse one day and it can be fast, and the next day it will be okay. It's doubtful whether the first doctor would have missed a pulse rate as fast as that. |
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What makes you sure they've got it right now?
Because this isn't the opinion of a GP, but a Cardiologist..... |
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Why should Doctors be more competent at their job than anyone else is in this Country. Havent you noticed that virtually everyone is useless.
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I'm afraid I don't share people's confident in doctors. They're not all equal by any means.
I've seen cases the other way around, where the consultant has been at fault and the GP has solved the problem. I saw one recently where the GP cleared up a problem as soon as he looked at it that a consultant had been pondering over for months. Well more like a year and a half actually. Doctors are only people. |
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Why you so certain his condition existed 5 years ago?
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