I have been refused treatment for pneumonia

               Coincidentally when I changed practices to start the NHS complaint the next doctor, Dr B,  refused to examine me for what turned out to be mycoplasmic pneumonia. I saw Dr B late 2003 or early 2004 when I felt really, really ill with a high temperature night sweats, bad cough and drinking over 4 litres of water a day. In front of another Doctor, she said I was a good looking man and needed to restyle my hair and other non clinical (sexual?) conversation. I eventually managed to say that I was really ill and she gave me a cursory examination and said I was OK.  I saw another Doctor and she sent me for a Radiograph which was clear. I received Amoxycillin 250mg tds for 7 days.

        But no change so I went and saw Dr B again where I tried to give my symptoms but she interrupted me and said” that she does not go on what a patient says but only on her examination” and I received another cursory exam of my chest.          I a-likened it to playing the bongos at a later date.
        I woke up early one morning with my heart beating so fast that it felt that it was trying to get out of my chest and sweat pouring out of me, (I thought I was having a heart attack). So I rang 999 and was admitted to the Local Hospital where they discovered I had Mycoplasmic Pneumonia and eventually the largest Lung Abscess in my area ( I became a clinical case for the Senior House Surgeon’s further examinations). Three weeks on a lung drain and 20 odd radiographs later the Consultant said it was too small to operate and discharged me. He said that without treatment Mycoplasmic Pneumonia can deteriorate, in 20% of cases, into a Lung Abscess. My heart was described as being sound. BUT
          I asked Dr B for an explanation for her “non-clinical discussion” rather than treatment and received a 4 years out of date Complaints form. I asked for sight of my Medical notes and she accepted my £10 cheque, didn’t cash it OR give me what I requested. I asked the LAHB to investigate these breaches but they did not and so she joined the transfer to the Independent Review. Then she screamed at me, by telephone, calling me “only a mental patient” I gave up but I eventually received some medical notes BUT only AFTER I sent another cheque because my 1st one was over 6 months out of date.

         As I have said I tried to start a complaint about HER but the Local Health Board said THERE WAS NO CASE TO ANSWER, but, out of the blue, in March this year the General Medical Council said THERE WAS a case to answer and referred my complaint BACK to the LHB. I have received NO REPLY from them after 3 months of "investigating" same as in 2003.

                 Both members of the Ambulance team, when they learnt the identity of my Doctor said that my experience of  Dr B was typical of her attitude.

                  She also screamed at S... from MIND "that I was only a mental patient" when S.... rang the GP to try and see if I could be actually examined. She also did not respond to my request for sight of my Medical Notes, despite asking, for 4-6 months. The Local Health Board said eventually that there was no case to answer. However the General Medical Council say that there IS a case to answer, in 2007, AND that shows the result of the NHS investigation to be at fault as they also said Dr A was exemplary. Dr A is medical director of  the Local Health board.

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