Where there's a blame..

[svetigpung]

I fractured my arm while playing footy nearly 4 weeks ago. Had an X-ray after four days where they "saw" nothing. Yesterday they found the arm was fractured. Nearly gone the four weeks repair period so theres no need to plaster, just a protctive bandage.
Four weeks of pain. Do i have a claim?
Opinions.

[Huffton]

No. Its this ambulance chasing mentality that has made everyone elses insurance premiums so high. They made a mistake, you haven't suffered any lasting damage, get over it.

[bridge too far]

No. Its this ambulance chasing mentality that has made everyone elses insurance premiums so high. They made a mistake, you haven't suffered any lasting damage, get over it.

Maybe not now, but likely to be arthritic in later years if it hasn't healed properly.

[Gemmel]

Maybe not now, but likely to be arthritic in later years if it hasn't healed properly.

Oh shut up

[Turkish]

These claim junkies do my head in. As said above, it's why insurance premiums are so ridiculously expensive these days.

[Griffo]

Years ago I went to the doctors after playing football. Was in goal having a kickabout at the park and bent my wrist back whilst saving a shot. F*cking hurt so went to the doctors who told me it was sprained and to just rest it. Hurt for ages even doing normal things without putting strain on it. Started doing a bit of double glazing last summer for a bit of money which started to hurt my wrist more with the heavy lifting. Went back to doctors (4 years later) and after x-rays it's broken and has healed back in the wrong position. If not treated will have arthritis very soon. Have to have a bone graft from my hip to put into my wrist and all sorts of nails and plates put in. Doctors are f*cking useless c*nts.

[Turkish]

Years ago I went to the doctors after playing football. Was in goal having a kickabout at the park and bent my wrist back whilst saving a shot. F*cking hurt so went to the doctors who told me it was sprained and to just rest it. Hurt for ages even doing normal things without putting strain on it. Started doing a bit of double glazing last summer for a bit of money which started to hurt my wrist more with the heavy lifting. Went back to doctors (4 years later) and after x-rays it's broken and has healed back in the wrong position. If not treated will have arthritis very soon. Have to have a bone graft from my hip to put into my wrist and all sorts of nails and plates put in. Doctors are f*cking useless c*nts.

I had a blood test for arthritis on Wednesday. Been getting bad pains for a few years in my ankle, the one I did badly playing football when I was 21. Get the results this Wednesday.

[bridge too far]

Oh shut up

Any chance you may have broken your jaw in the past with similar long term effects?

[Baj]

Good doctors work in hospitals, bad doctors become GP's. If you ever have ANY doubt about something a GP has said, always get a second opinion ASAP, if you're still in doubt, go to A+E where the real doctors are.

[Gemmel]

Any chance you may have broken your jaw in the past with similar long term effects?

No chance.

[svetigpung]

Years ago I went to the doctors after playing football. Was in goal having a kickabout at the park and bent my wrist back whilst saving a shot. F*cking hurt so went to the doctors who told me it was sprained and to just rest it. Hurt for ages even doing normal things without putting strain on it. Started doing a bit of double glazing last summer for a bit of money which started to hurt my wrist more with the heavy lifting. Went back to doctors (4 years later) and after x-rays it's broken and has healed back in the wrong position. If not treated will have arthritis very soon. Have to have a bone graft from my hip to put into my wrist and all sorts of nails and plates put in. Doctors are f*cking useless c*nts.

This is what i am worried about. Going back next week to see if its healed correctly. Not gonna be too jolly if they have to break it and re-set it...perfect in time for the sweaty summer!
I can't work out how they could miss it first time round. Doc said it was just sprained and get back to work. You gotta laugh.

[Thedelldays]

I work in a job where if you get injured in work and it comes back to haunt you....you get loads of money
hence why they don't let you leave until you have a clean bill of health (with reasonable exceptions)

[notnowcato]

Years ago I went to the doctors after playing football. Was in goal having a kickabout at the park and bent my wrist back whilst saving a shot. F*cking hurt so went to the doctors who told me it was sprained and to just rest it. Hurt for ages even doing normal things without putting strain on it. Started doing a bit of double glazing last summer for a bit of money which started to hurt my wrist more with the heavy lifting. Went back to doctors (4 years later) and after x-rays it's broken and has healed back in the wrong position. If not treated will have arthritis very soon. Have to have a bone graft from my hip to put into my wrist and all sorts of nails and plates put in. Doctors are f*cking useless c*nts.

It hurt for years and you did nothing about it...

[doddisalegend]

Funnily enough I had a text message from my legal team this morning telling me they have calculated how much I'm owed after my accident....Strange though becuase I didn't know I had a legal team or that I had had an accident

[dingbattigger]

Mrs D tripped over a dodgy paving slab and went to soton general A & E to get her very painful ankle seen. X rays taken and we're told no break. She carries on working ( on her feet all day) and 4 weeks later goes to our gp cos the ankle is up like a tree trunk and still hurting like hell. More xrays and we're told that actually yes it is broken. Had to have a cast and the radiologist at our local hospital called up the first set of xrays on the pc and she reckoned she could see the break!!!

Humans make mistakes.

[Truesaint]

Have been a Radiographer for nearly 20 years now. Breaks are not always visible or easily seen on the first x-ray especially if its undisplaced. Sometimes its easier to see hairline factures on follow up films when the healing has begun. Thats just the way it is unfortunatly. As for seeing the initail break on the original film once you know its there, thats often easy, as hindsight is a wonderful thing. Radiography is prone to errors like any science. Trouble is nowadays we all expect a definative answer first time round. If only medicine was so simple!

[dingbattigger]

Have been a Radiographer for nearly 20 years now. Breaks are not always visible or easily seen on the first x-ray especially if its undisplaced. Sometimes its easier to see hairline factures on follow up films when the healing has begun. Thats just the way it is unfortunatly. As for seeing the initail break on the original film once you know its there, thats often easy, as hindsight is a wonderful thing. Radiography is prone to errors like any science. Trouble is nowadays we all expect a definative answer first time round. If only medicine was so simple!

This is why we didn't even think about a claim, like I said humans make mistakes, it's part of life.

[Minty]

Good doctors work in hospitals, bad doctors become GP's. If you ever have ANY doubt about something a GP has said, always get a second opinion ASAP, if you're still in doubt, go to A+E where the real doctors are.

I know you've had a bad experience cos I think it was mentioned on Facebook, but generalising this way doesn't help. Never mind the fact that in A+E you're more than likely going to see a Registrar who is in their 2nd year of GP training, and who is then going to go on to work in a GP Surgery...

I actually had a similar experience to others... I had a football injury, was told (in A+E) that it was just bruised, but 4 weeks later, still in agony, my GP sent me for an x-ray which revealed a break at the top of the Tibia, around the knee joint.

Anyway, I agree with some posts - mistakes do get made. Doctors (of all persuasions) make mistakes, or have different opinions on how best to treat or monitor something. We now live in a world where the expectation is that everything will be made perfect again, and that Doctors should know everything and be infallible. News flash - they aren't. They're human.

[bridge too far]

I know you've had a bad experience cos I think it was mentioned on Facebook, but generalising this way doesn't help. Never mind the fact that in A+E you're more than likely going to see a Registrar who is in their 2nd year of GP training, and who is then going to go on to work in a GP Surgery...

I actually had a similar experience to others... I had a football injury, was told (in A+E) that it was just bruised, but 4 weeks later, still in agony, my GP sent me for an x-ray which revealed a break at the top of the Tibia, around the knee joint.

Anyway, I agree with some posts - mistakes do get made. Doctors (of all persuasions) make mistakes, or have different opinions on how best to treat or monitor something. We now live in a world where the expectation is that everything will be made perfect again, and that Doctors should know everything and be infallible. News flash - they aren't. They're human.

And a lot of GPs offer / volunteer / are required to do sessions in A & E.

[dune]

Oh shut up

Socialists in after money for nothing shocker.

[bridge too far]

Socialists in after money for nothing shocker.

Where did I imply that? Or have you, as usual, made an assumption without actually reading what I wrote?

I was pointing out to the OP that sometimes fractures cause problems in the long term. Did you have any useful advice for him?

You should take Gemmel's advice I think.

[dune]

Where did I imply that? Or have you, as usual, made an assumption without actually reading what I wrote?

I was pointing out to the OP that sometimes fractures cause problems in the long term. Did you have any useful advice for him?

You should take Gemmel's advice I think.

Your implication was clearly to claim, on the off chance that a problem arose in the future. It's because of people like you that this country is in the mess it's in.

[bridge too far]

Your implication was clearly to claim, on the off chance that a problem arose in the future. It's because of people like you that this country is in the mess it's in.

My only comment was as follows:

Maybe not now, but likely to be arthritic in later years if it hasn't healed properly.


Quite how that equates to encouraging him to make a claim is beyond me, but no doubt the correlation exsists in your tunnel-vision mind.

[hamster]

Good doctors work in hospitals, bad doctors become GP's. If you ever have ANY doubt about something a GP has said, always get a second opinion ASAP, if you're still in doubt, go to A+E where the real doctors are.

This can be true. But I've had some good gps in my time. The last one very bad though, a liability IMO.

[Whitey Grandad]

I fractured my arm while playing footy nearly 4 weeks ago. Had an X-ray after four days where they "saw" nothing. Yesterday they found the arm was fractured. Nearly gone the four weeks repair period so theres no need to plaster, just a protctive bandage.
Four weeks of pain. Do i have a claim?
Opinions.

No you don't. Who do you blame for the break? If you hadn't been playing footy it might not have happened.

[AndyNorthernSaints]

Good doctors work in hospitals, bad doctors become GP's. If you ever have ANY doubt about something a GP has said, always get a second opinion ASAP, if you're still in doubt, go to A+E where the real doctors are.

What do you base this sweeping generalisation on? Would you say the hospital Doctor in the Baby P case was a good doctor or someone who made a human error? As someone who works in a hospital and is married to a GP i would say there are good and bad doctors in hospital and communty settings. Most GP's have also worked in various hospitals before becoming GP's btw.

[Whitey Grandad]

As I alwas say, you can't generalise.

[buctootim]

Surely the club have a claim against you for all those chances and crosses you missed. There is never an excuse or good reason for failing to pick up on anything......eh?

[svetigpung]

wasn't ever going to claim, just wanted to check out some reactions on here.
Agree with many on here that this "claiming attitude" as well as Health & Safety are bringing society to a halt. Its just following the good ol US and A and their country of lawers. Sick.
Not actually a problem over here (Sweden) as yet. Just hope they dont import this way of life.

Still got a sweaty arm (26degrees this week) in some sort of protective casting, while waiting to be called for the next set of x-rays. Now i at least know some of the risks if its all gone t1ts-up.

[Smirking_Saint]

The NHS is a bag of sh!te for anything non life threatening.

Twice I have torn my ACL, twice I went in and told them what I believed I had done and twice they mis diagnosed and took over a year to get a firm diagnosis that I actually did what I had already told them, added to the fact that it always seems to me they are worried about spending money and getting u out the door then properly assessing and testing.

I dont agree with the blame culture, its pathetic, you dont need compensation so stop being a mong, that said if these doctors actually became responsible then surely they wouldnt make mistakes and would be more thorough.

Go private

Oh and I have never had a particularly good GP either