TIA: View from the patient's chair

摘要

In the twinkling of an eye I am changed; from experienced GP into a meek and bleating patient in the queue. "... 774s'ran the strapline on the February 2013 issue of the BJGP} to be tossed by the bed as a must-read, promptly forgotten. The next day, flushed from the February chill, I pulled off my cycling gear and bent down to get something that had fallen onto the floor. As I stood up a butterfly danced across the wintry sky through our bathroom window. Migraine spectra, I wondered? But I don't get migraines. I held up a finger and could not see it, yes left eye, but now the quivering wing cleanly cut out the lower visual field. At that moment a 3-hour clock began running down. The vision pixelated back to normal and I stood there wondering, 'Call the GP out of hours? No, takes too long'.