Giulia
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Hello,
I thought to ask you to describe your relationship with your GP.
A man or a woman ? How old ? How do you feel with him/her ? Which style of his practice ?
Here I am, trying to have a start
My GP is a lady, in her 50'es. I feel very confident with her, and as she told me, she is confident with me (she told me once : "I can get confident with you because you check everything twice instead of once", ok, the translation from French is not the best one but the idea is....).
She never beats around the bush : she agrees, she tells it, she doesn't agree, she also tells it. But she doesn't scold a patient very often : in 1 year, I could hear her scolding a patient once, maybe twice (which is not often). She does it when she can be absolutely certain that the patient doesn't care for his/her health (for example : someone which suffers from asthma and smokes at the same time), and only when there is no other solution than scolding. (Between parenthesis, she had scolded me because I had become too thin last December, and she knew because she knows me quite well that I didn't want to go on diet. She guessed, and she was right, that I was acting as a careless one, and she hates when a patient acts as totally careless... I didn't like to be scolded by her, and I hate recognize it, but she was absolutely right and I can't say she was wrong scolding me !!)
This way of doing may not suit everyone (it doesn't suit my mom or my sister, my mother doesn't feel at ease with her and that's why she changed when she was diagnosed with her diabetes), but for me, it suits me very well
She has never acted as : "Do what I say, not what I do" (I think that her husband acts like that, but I can't be certain at 100% ) : if she asks her patients not to smoke, she won't do it (she never smells tobacco or so on).
=> No reason to change GP : never change a winner team
I thought to ask you to describe your relationship with your GP.
A man or a woman ? How old ? How do you feel with him/her ? Which style of his practice ?
Here I am, trying to have a start
My GP is a lady, in her 50'es. I feel very confident with her, and as she told me, she is confident with me (she told me once : "I can get confident with you because you check everything twice instead of once", ok, the translation from French is not the best one but the idea is....).
She never beats around the bush : she agrees, she tells it, she doesn't agree, she also tells it. But she doesn't scold a patient very often : in 1 year, I could hear her scolding a patient once, maybe twice (which is not often). She does it when she can be absolutely certain that the patient doesn't care for his/her health (for example : someone which suffers from asthma and smokes at the same time), and only when there is no other solution than scolding. (Between parenthesis, she had scolded me because I had become too thin last December, and she knew because she knows me quite well that I didn't want to go on diet. She guessed, and she was right, that I was acting as a careless one, and she hates when a patient acts as totally careless... I didn't like to be scolded by her, and I hate recognize it, but she was absolutely right and I can't say she was wrong scolding me !!)
This way of doing may not suit everyone (it doesn't suit my mom or my sister, my mother doesn't feel at ease with her and that's why she changed when she was diagnosed with her diabetes), but for me, it suits me very well
She has never acted as : "Do what I say, not what I do" (I think that her husband acts like that, but I can't be certain at 100%
) : if she asks her patients not to smoke, she won't do it (she never smells tobacco or so on). => No reason to change GP : never change a winner team
