Posted by cactus on May 4, 2008, at 16:51:24
In reply to Re: Angry at pdoc » Molybdenum, posted by Quintal on May 3, 2008, at 8:52:51
Worse still is that all our records are now held on a central database, so any doctor that treats me will see what the previous ones have written. My GP made a particular point of pasting warnings on the computer to say that I'm personality disordered and to stop any other doctors prescribing benzos to me. She gets off on that kind of thing. And yes, I could change GPs too, but with that kind of reference other GPs might be reluctant to take me on. Between the pair of them, they've made sure that any doctor that sees me will be predjudiced against me, and it will be this way for the rest of life. I hate them.
Q
They are seriously considering a central database of all medical records here in Australia at the moment. I think it's a horrendous breech of privacy because, like you, I have had some terrible experiences with bad GP's and pdoc's.
We too have public health care here for everyone but it's not as extensive as the UK. One interesting thing that they have already implemented a few years back, is put all our prescriptions at chemists onto a central database to stop doctor shopping for meds. This wasn't such big deal until a couple of weeks ago when I put a script in and had the pharmacist come over to me and say did you live at these previous addresses. I looked up quite confused and said yes and she said I'm going to put them all into the same file. They then have the power to alert the government of what you have been receiving and flag you for certain meds and report your GP/pdoc for over prescribing.
She was so rude to me because my list is enormous and asked me what the modafinil was for. When I told her I had sleep apnea and was a shift worker, she stopped dead in her tracks and couldn't have been nicer, she showed real concern and took $50 off the modafinil. That really intimidated me because she was young and I got the feeling that I was about to become her first reported customer. I work in an enviroment full of control freaks and she was right up there with them. I could see it in her eyes that she was about to pop a report in on me, but she didn't.
Freaky. C
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