I Have Hair Loss So I Went To My Doctors. Another Disastrous Day for the NHS.
If you have hair loss or are suffering from thinning hair and or a scalp disorder where do you turn? You go to your GP for advice, that’s right isn’t it? I mean that’s why a huge amount of money goes from number 11 Downing Street to the NHS each and every year without question; in fact it rises higher than inflation currently running costs at between 1.5% and 3% of an expected NHS budget of £1000bn over the next 10 years: a price tag of £15bn-£30bn. Great, money well spent I can have a professional assessment of my hair loss and scalp disorder today.
Wrong!
This is what actually happens. Your GP will be unsympathetic and dismissive. His reason for this attitude is fear as they has no knowledge of the hair or scalp and he is on the whole too lazy to make an effort as he regards hair loss and thinning in both men and women as a fact that will happen inevitably and have no empathy for these type of patients.
Normal reaction if you are persistent enough to take the embarrassment and humiliation of making 3 or 4 appointments at your GP’s over the next 6 to 12 months is you get told if you are a woman “that women don’t go bald, I’m a doctor I should know” dam right he should and he got that wrong or “let me prescribe you some anti depressants they will make you feel better”. Best of all, you get a letter of referral to your local Hospitals dermatologist (which is a 6 to 18 months waiting list) only to hear from the dermatologist (whether you are male or female the answer is the same) “I really don’t know why you are hear you need to get some sort of wig if it upsets you that much” and then when he realises he has offended, “wait a moment I think we do NHS wigs, let me check”. At which point you explode or run.
There is no Government funding or NHS money allocated for trichology even though everyone in the UK will need to see a trichologist at least once in the course of their lives. The medical profession knows that all trichologists are in private practice, so why not refer the general public to there nearest trichologist and let them see the real professionals today before it’s too late.
For a trichologist in your area call 020 7976 6868 for free advice.
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