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I hate how GP receptionists now won't even put you on the list to speak to a doctor by phone/get an appointment unless you announce in great detail to the entire queue/waiting room what you want to see the doctor about. Whatever happened to patient privacy? And when I said I didn't want to talk about it here and just wanted to speak to a doctor privately well that's not good enough. I said it's about changing my prescription. She said which item? I said the whole lot. She tried to make me call out each item in front of everyone and some are for embarrassing/private things that I don't want to announce in public. She argued with me about it, it's like a rite of passage now that you have to earn your right to see a doctor by loudly declaring all of your medical issues to the entire waiting room. And then she tried to fob me off by saying the prescription team would deal with it. The same prescription team who've been messing it up for a year now? No thanks. In the end I got a phone call with a doctor and she said she will leave a paper prescription with three months worth of everything on it. I guess I'll collect it on Monday and see if the dosages are actually correct for three months but I'll be amazed if they are. How can they keep making it so difficult? I've even complained to my local MP but he is useless and does nothing.
Oh yeah GP receptionists blow. Here they're like 50% medical students (incompetent) and 50% people who want to be your doctor but aren't.