New "Jesse's" GP rule of 3 visits

[Kiristar]

Jess's Rule: GPs to re-check some patients for deadly 'misses'

Jessica Brady's parents campaigned for the initiative after she made repeated calls to GPs before her death aged 27 from terminal cancer.

www.bbc.co.uk

An excellent concept, which hopefully will save lives, especially from Cancer.

 

[EndME]

The story of this young persons fate is absolutely horrible, the plan to avoid such stories seems nothing but dismissive of the actual cause of problems to me. Nothing of what is being suggested here as the solution even makes any sense to me in the context of her case. The GP could have just concluded "well there's no effective therapy for Long-Covid so no wonder you're not getting better, continue as before" or "Long-Covid is still just in your head, so nothing to further investigate". If Jess didn't get passed on to a specialist, like millions of others across the globe, isn't it clear that something is wrong in the system that isn't fixed by a friendly reminder of "things should be different"? If something was missed here due to GPs being unfamiliar with it, how do they all of a sudden become familar with something they can't recognise?

Wouldn't opening up cancer screening to a wider population or increasing incentivites for diagnosing cancer do much more than this empty word salad?

 

[rvallee]

Yeah this is clearly just doing appropriate mouth noise that will not change anything in practice. There is 100x more pressure going in the wrong direction against it anyway.

 

[BrightCandle]

The real story here is that Long Covid (alongside ME/CFS) patients do not receive normal healthcare, we get triaged out by the GPs intentionally whether its the right diagnosis or not. So when we come down with other conditions if they are fatal we die from them, or we live with yet another co-morbidity. That is the real story here but the press nor medicine is willing to admit to it yet.

That is also the reason why this rule wont help. Getting another opinion that is based on the same prejudiced practice isn't going to change a thing.

If I came down with cancer I don't know how I would know and my GP certainly wouldn't be testing me I will just die one day from it.

 

[Mij]

I describe news symptoms and don't mention ME/CFS at all, that way I will be sent to a specialist to address that particular issue. I've learnt over the years that there is no point in mentioning ME/CFS. It might be indirectly related or might not be related at all.

I've had vestibular/vertigo/sickness symptoms for the last 5 years, I also got shingles earlier this year, it's most likely related to my weakened immune system. My GP wants me to see an ENT.

 

[hotblack]

don't mention ME/CFS at all, that way I will be sent to a specialist to address that particular issue. I've learnt over the years that there is no point in mentioning ME/CFS. It might be indirectly related or might not be related at all.

That sadly sounds like the best approach for anyone that can.

 

[V.R.T.]

That sadly sounds like the best approach for anyone that can.

Yes this is the thing, I am too disabled to hide it anymore.