Thursday 13 March 2008 – Pending visit to company GP

I am due to see the company GP on Monday 17 March, next week, I have no idea what format that will take or what sort of an outcome is expected from it. I suspect they will want to see me return to work as soon as possible. I shall be taking as much paper work with me as I can just in case the company GPs stance is strongly in favour of my return to work whilst not fully fit.

If forgot to mention in my last entry how my GP has made a couple of errors in the report he has sent into my place of work.
The first refers to me still being ‘under the care of the chest (Cardiothoracic Unit) at the University Hospital’ where I had my operation. I have told him on more than one occasion that this is not the case as I was referred back to the Oncology outpatients at the specialist Orthopaedic hospital.
The other is concerning the screening I receive at the oncology outpatients I attend where he states ‘The Consultant teams perform regular liver ultrasounds and CT scans to monitor for any further spread of his underlying malignancy’, again this is not true. My Doctor assures me he has read this somewhere but could not find the reference for it when I asked to see it. As a result I phoned the oncology and asked where my GP may have picked up this information from and they were quite adamant, but still pleasant, about the fact that this is something they would never normally, if ever, do. After 16 years of attending the out-patients department I have to conclude that this is true as I only ever receive chest xrays.

I have noticed of late that my Doctor does not always listen to what I have told him and as a result he does not always log things onto his computer as he should.

I have now begun to write down any symptoms I have during my latest course of tablets and I will continue to print them off for him to read during future visits.