Attended this hospital for IBD. Met the doctor once & was thereafter continuously put in with a pharmacist who I believe was unqualified in dealing with Crohn’s symptoms to comment on ongoing issues, nor able to do physical exams. Complained to patient affairs at Hairmyres about this, & it feels as though the doctor took it extremely personally. They refused to put me in with another IBD doctor in their unit, & instead I had to go to another hospital.
This held my treatment up for months and has caused extreme concerns for me re IBD standards within Lanarkshire. It took 7 months to give me an appointment with a doctor at Hairmyres, but at that point all faith in this hospital had been lost due to the way I've been treated. Including their patient affairs dept. I have notified patient affairs on numerous occasions that face-to-face appointments will exacerbate symptoms, yet have been ignored and no reasonable adjustments put in place. Why couldn’t they do a telephone consultation?
My infusions have been cancelled, which has put my heath at major risk & I'm told I am no longer a patient of Hairmyres Hospital! I feel this is extreme discrimination and I need answers, as nobody seems to be explaining what is going on here. No phone contact has been made. No letter received. Disgusting behaviour, in my view.
"Looking for an explanation"
About: University Hospital Hairmyres / Medical/Gastroenterology (Ward 11) University Hospital Hairmyres Medical/Gastroenterology (Ward 11) G75 8RG
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