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GP Receptionist's Rant Aimed At Complaining Patients Goes Viral

Rachel Andrews

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GP Receptionist's Rant Aimed At Complaining Patients Goes Viral

Featured Image Credit: SWNS/Rose Baker

A fed-up GP receptionist has hit out at patients complaining about waiting times in a social media rant which has now gone viral.

Rose Baker, 24, urged people using NHS surgeries to "take a second to think before you sl*g us all off".

She took to social media after witnessing first-hand disgruntled patients criticising the "failing NHS" and not being able to get appointments first thing in the morning.

Rose took aim at people booking appointments over "a bit of a cold", urging them to spend 15p on a pack of paracetamol instead.

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Credit: SWNS/Rose Baker
Credit: SWNS/Rose Baker

She also responded to patients questioning why as a receptionist she asks what they want to a see a doctor for and said: "Quite frankly I could really do without knowing you've got thrush."

Rose, who has asked for the GP practice where she works not to be named, posted her argument on Facebook and it has since gone viral, with over 7,000 shares and 8,000 likes.

The post, shared earlier this month, read: "S T O P complaining about your GP surgeries, it's becoming more and more of a thing I see in a morning on Facebook and as a GP receptionist it's absolutely infuriating.

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Credit: SWNS/Rose Baker
Credit: SWNS/Rose Baker

"You can't get through to your doctors when it opens? Yeah that's because GP surgeries have up to 12,000 patients in some cases, and heaven forbid imagine if every single one of those patient was poorly and wanted to be seen at 8am.

"Doctors can only see a certain amount of people in a session, that's for the care and safety of the patient, because again, heaven forbid, your already stressed over worked doctor had to see double the amount of patients in a morning, imagine what could happen?

"Something could be missed, something could be wrongly prescribed. It's not that doctors don't want to see patients and they don't want to work, they see the top limit of patients they can see per session because that's all they are allowed to do!

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"Why's the receptionist asking me what I need to be seen for? FUNNY THAT ONE.

"We're not being rude, or nosey, because quite frankly I could really do without knowing you've got thrush or that you've got a cyst in your groin that's going a bit funny and is starting to smell, but we have to ask because we're TOLD too by the GP you're so desperate to see."

Rose continued: "Again, but why? Because contrary to popular belief, you don't always need to see a doctor if you're poorly, and if you've been knocked off your motorbike and you're bleeding profusely from every hole in your body, A&E is probably better than sitting in a GP reception.

"We HAVE TO care navigate you, to the chemist, to the walk in centre, the A&E, to the dentist! It's our job.

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"Just take a second to think before you sl*g us all off and say how much the NHS is failing and going down hill."

Credit: SWNS/Rose Baker
Credit: SWNS/Rose Baker

She added: "If you've got a bit of a cold and you're taking up a doctors appointment rather than managing it at home or going to the chemist and buying some paracetamol over the counter for 15p because you want it for free and would rather spend that 15p putting it towards your pack of 20 sterling dual, you're part of the problem as well."

Rose, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, has since said patients needed to learn a bit about 'self care' and the different options available to them when they fall ill.

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She added: "On that morning I posted it, I had just seen about four or five stories from other people complaining about the GPs and not being able to get an appointment.

"I just got to the point where I was tired of seeing it everyday so I went on a bit of a rant. I never expected what has happened to happen.

"I spoke to the GPs about it and they said to leave it up because people needed to know."

Topics: Life News, Real, Health

Rachel Andrews
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