How do GP's cope?

[sasskins]

If I were a GP (and the nation can breathe a sigh of relief that I'm not) I think I would spend most of my time suspended in disbelief!
IBS (dodgy stomach), lactose intolerant (don't like milk), etc etc. When I was growing up in the 50's/60's these didn't exist.
Please someone tell me that NHS resources are put to better use.

[jackthehat]

Continuing where you left off............?

Of course they existed; possibly misunderstood and differently diagnosed but they existed.

[sasskins]

Continuing where you left off............?
Meaning what JTH?

[boxtops]

They did exist, but technology hadn't developed enough to know what the different conditions were. Remember Victorian times, women had the vapours, people died from all sorts of catch-all conditions. IBS is far more than a dodgy stomach (I have a family prone to Crohns, believe me - the symptoms are hideous). I blame a lot of the allergies on people's obsession with cleanliness these days - kids aren't exposed to anything remotely buggy in their young days, all sorts of sensitivities come out later.

Better use that what, do you suggest? Illness prevention is what takes up a lot of GPs' time these days, trying to stop people dying young, sometimes from things they can (often) do something about, like obesity, smoking and addiction of Macdonalds.

[B00]

even if they didn't exist then, it was only because they hadn't been discovered yet. You're seriously not suggesting these symptoms aren't real are you?

[ummmm]

How daft.

[boxtops]

I know no GPs who spend their time in disbelief with patients with either of these conditions.

[jackthehat]

Meaning that you seem to be focusing on the negative side of any particular topic at the moment.

[sasskins]

No BOO I'm not.
I just think too much is made of them.
I tend to agree with boxtops with regard to the cleanliness thing.
Further to that, I recently saw an ad on TV healding that prices were now cheaper on household 'essentials'.
When did bathroom cleaner become an assential?

[sasskins]

*essential

[ChuckFickens]

Is an assential bathroom cleaner otherwise known as toilet roll?

[boxtops]

what do you clean your bathroom with, then, sasskins?

[jackthehat]

I agree.
There are some tiresome types who bother the doctors with their trivial complaints thus depleting the time that he can concentrate on my so much more serious ones.......

[sunny-dave]

What a load of ignorant nonsense. These are real ailments, with real people suffering from them. Just because they weren't specifically identified by the currently used names doesn't mean that they weren't around and being treated by GPs in the 50s and 60s.

I'm not surprised you wound up with a new username - I'd guess the old one was worn out from having feet inserted in mouth on a regular basis.

[sasskins]

lol @ CF - you got me

[sasskins]

Soda boxtops.

[tenrec]

I once went to docs with a septic finger, while my freind's husband was dying of cancer. Said that to doc - he said it is still important to get finger fixed.

[tenrec]

*friends* doh

[sasskins]

Pleasant as always SD

[boxtops]

Good, sasskins, you can use basic cleaning materials for everything - nobody needs a different squirty bottle of goop for every task.