Dependence on prescription medicines linked to deprivation

[BazzaS]

Wow, some major assumption there.

 

Firstly that the meds will mean you will become so insensitive to pain that you will cause further injury : unlikely.

 

Secondly that the antidepressant make you “stupid” (and / or that they are being used as an antidepressant at all!)

Low dose amitryptyline is indeed used for back pain (and at doses below those used for its antidepressant effect)

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/amitriptyline-for-pain/

 

They probably worked out you were dismissive, so didn’t bother going into detail if they felt you weren’t listening or willing to try it anyhow.

 

Then again, what does your GP know, anyway?.

5 years of med school, at least 5 years post qualification, and then any number of years once a fully qualified GP. Yet, you know better.

 

it doesn’t “switch your brain off”. Mind you, from some of your posts .....

Edited September 11, 2019 by BazzaS

[BazzaS]

For SOME people, the pain meds allow things like physio, and avoid interventions.

 

For those who go on to surgery, some get cured and some get worse : surgery  has risks.

 

Yet again : you extrapolate your (limited!) experiences and apply them to everyone as “gospel”

 

it was that that made me consider if your brain wasn’t considering other possibilities: it was clear from your post you were too narrow-minded to fully appreciate your GP’s advice.

 

Specialists are specialists ; they see the cases that reach them.

GP’s are specialists in being GP’s : they prevent the specialists getting overwhelmed with people who don’t need them.

”The wizard and the gatekeeper”. From ? 1989?

[BazzaS]

The power of Google.

googling “wizard gatekeeper NHS” confirms “The Gatekeeper and the Wizard” was from 1989

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/298/6667/172.full.pdf