Apart from many GP's insulting me these 2 incidents stick out:.
           Dr C  

          My regular doctor was away and as I was feeling very depressed I arranged to see the emergency doctor. As I had never seen him before I quickly made a short history of two short sentences and a request for help. The previous night I had witnessed a major crash and a death on the M4 motorway and was stuck in the resulting traffic jam for 6 hours. There was a debate on Radio 4 and I caught this phrase as I "surfed the stations", for something to occupy my time and heard Rabbi Julia Neuberger say "Doctors have a moral and ethical duty to treat their patients, but can fail in both duties to the detriment of that patient". It reminded me of Dr A and his refusal to explain his actions and sent my mind into turmoil and had  a "restless" night

        I started” Eight yeas ago I…” He said I don’t care about 8 years ago. SILENCE. I started to say how I felt and was interrupted again by a shout of ” I only have 10 minutes a patient you know”. The communication between my brain and mouth broke and I shouted at him “I might as well have committed suicide then” and left. OOPS. I immediately apologised to the receptionist and told her to relay my comments to the doctor as it was very important. I went shopping and went home feeling really strange as this was the first time I can remember saying that ……EVER.
          AT home an hour later two policeman burst in threatening me with being sectioned. I managed after another hour to explain the circumstances surrounding my outburst and they left warning me, with a grin, that if I did do as I threatened they would be in trouble and they assumed I didn’t want that !! I apologised for wasting their time and they left telling me to continue with my fight as they both felt I was right.
        I later saw that doctor buying unbranded vodka in Tescos at 9.00 am. He saw me and looked, I thought, very embarrassed. I stupidly put two and two together and made 300 (or did I?? )and thus I was ejected from that surgery.
        If Doctors have a bad day, or just want to get through a busy clinic, it should NOT be us that suffers from that whiplash tongue with a sharp comment. As patients, it only takes one wrong word from a Doctor or health professional to make us feel ANGRY and SCARED for days on end. It’s bad enough dealing with this disease on a day to day basis, without an offhand comment making it worse

Dr K

I went to  ask for a second opinion re my heart and had to see  Dr K who has a reputation of giving her own opinions in surgery,  and she was not prepared to listen saying things like ” Didn’t my surgery do enough for you” when I mentioned possible misdiagnosis (I was ONLY repeating what the Anaesthetist said.) Ignoring “overzealous interpretation” and “probably read the wrong echo scan” parts of the conversation.

        She also angrily suggested I got used to being destroyed and to MOVE ON but stopped short of saying “grow up” by saying” If you are depressed why did you not accept psychiatric treatment when offered last? and so that bitch started off on a tangent and successfully managed to destroy any feeling of happiness I had had ” So she has referred me to the local psychiatric unit when ALL I wanted was the privilege of a second opinion about my heart as ALL male members of my family had heart disease of some form and ALL men, back at least for 2 generations, except my father DIED of a heart attack in their late 50's, MY AGE. Dad died aged 76 with bowel cancer with associated Congestive Cardiac Failure. I have been sent for a flexible sigmoidoscopy, which thankfully, was clear BUT no one seems to be interested in my cardio condition. I had had a diagnosis of a “serious heart condition” which provided the need for 14 months of taking Warfarin on a 8mg, 8mg, 9,mg rota on a 3 day rota. then suddenly nothing was wrong and I had to accept it, no questions asked. A few words of reassurance was all I wanted.

 

There are many more incidents that show medical discrimination against me as  a "Mental Patient"

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