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Written by a patient
18th January 2020


WAS SEEN BY HIM ON 27TH OF June 2019 AS I HAVE A GASTRIC PACEMAKER IN FOR GASTROPARESIS AND THE BATTERY HAS RUN OUT AND I NEED IT REPLACED. HE SAID THAT HE WOULD DO THIS AND MAKE ME A PRIORITY. ON 27TH JULY I HAD A PRE ASSESMENT DONE AND WAS FOUND FIT FOR SURGERY. I PHONED THE WAITING LIST AT NINEWELLS HOSPITAL IN SEPTEMBER 2019 AND WAS TOLD THAT HE HAD IN FACT PUT ME ON THE ROUTINE WAITING LISY RATHER THAN THE URGENT WAITING LIST AND IT WOULD BE 9 MONTHS BEFORE I WOULD HAVE MY REPLACEMENT DONE. I CONTACTED MY GP AS I AM IN SEVERE PAIN AND COSTANTLY VOMITING DO TO MY GASTROPARESIS AND THEN HE PUT ME ON THE URGENT WAITING LIST ON 6TH OCTOBER 2019. ON NOVEMBER 2019 I RECIEVED A PHONE CALL FROM NINEWELLS WAITING LIST AND SAID I WAS TO HAVE THE REPLACENENT DONE ON 18TH DECEMBER 2019. I HAD ALREADY INFORMED THEM THAT I WOULD BE AWAY ON HOLIDAY BETWEEN 17TH OF NOVEMBER UNTIL 22ND OF DECEMBER AND RECIEVED CONFERMATION OF THIS NOTIFICATION SO WHEN I SAID THAT I INFORMED THEM THAT I WOULD NOT BE IN THE COUNRY ON THAT DATE AND I HAD INFORMED THEM I WAS TOLD THAT THEY HAD NOT CHECKED THEIR SYSTEM FOR THIS. I HAD TO GO BACK TO NINEWELLS FOR A REFRESH AND THEN RECIEVED A PHONE CALL FROM MY DIABETIC NURSE TO SAY MY BLOODS SUGARS WERE A BIT HIGH AND BEFORE HE WOULD DO THE REPLACEMENT MY SUGAR LEVELS WOULD HAVE TO COME DOWN A BIT. WHEN I HAD MY PACEMAKER PUT IN IN MAY 2011 MY SUGAR LEVELS WERE A LOT HIGHER THAN IT IS NOW. I FEEL HE IS JUST TRYING TO MAKE ANY EXCUSE NOT TO DO THE REPLACEMENT OPERATION ON ME. I HAVE NOT HAD ANY COMMUNICATION FROM HIM AT ALL SINCE 27TH OF JUNE 2019 SO I DO NOT HAVE ANY FAITH IN HIM AT ALL. IF HE DOES NOT WANT TO DO THE REPLACEMENT THEN I WOULD RATHER HE BE UP FRONT AND TELL ME THEN I WOULD KNOW THE SITUATION RATHER THAN HIM PUSSY FOOTING AROUND AND MAKING EXCUSES FOR NOT DOING THE OPERATION.

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