Lying Doctors!

This is my first blog for June, and one that will probably be my last for a while as I am off on holiday in a few days!

I have heard back from the DWP with regards to my appeal against them stopping my Incapacity Benefit because they say I am now suddenly fit to work! The letter tells me that they have received my appeal but need more information to proceed! Quite laughable really, not sure how I could give them more information until I found out why I had been turned down, because the letter they told me would be sent telling me why I had been refused has still not arrived! I did, however, have the foresight to ask for all medical reports pertaining to my case, and all I can say is the doctor who examined me is an out and out liar!!! The amount of things that he has ommitted from the report is also ridiculous - it would appear that only the positives were included in my report! He is also a bare faced liar in as much as he told me that it was not him who made the decision about my benefit, and yet one of the sentences in the report is from him stating that I should be sent back to work sooner rather than later! My god, what a joke, the amount of things he has lied about in the report are incredible, and I will now be getting the help of a solicitor because what they are doing to people is nothing short of out and out bullying! One of the things he says in his report is that I managed to take my cardigan off myself - I wasn't wearing a cardigan, he also stated that I undid the zip of my handbag on my own - there is no zip on my handbag! This is how low our government have stooped to get people who are too ill to work to go back! Apparently if I can do this, then I must be fit to work! He has also on several occasions throughout the report stated that I went on holiday in February to Spain, that I walk the dog - as many of you know I rarely do this, and never do it on my own, I do the washing and that I can shower and dress myself! Yes I can do some of these things, but what he failed to mention from what I told him during my interview is that I have to have a cleaner come in twice a week to give the house a proper clean because I can't do it, I send my ironing away because I cannot stand for any length of time to do it, and he also didn't bother to mention the fact that we have had our bathroom adapted so I have a walk in shower and that I get up in the morning and shower before Richard goes to work as I am afraid of falling if I do it while I am on my own. He also failed to mention that it can take me up to an hour to shower and dress and after it I am exhausted! But of course, they have their targets that the government expect them to meet, and if they don't get a certain number of people off benefits they could be in trouble! No matter that the people they are sending back to work aren't fit enough, they must meet the government targets!

Needless to say I will be drafting a response, with the help of my husband, because one of the other things that was mentioned in his report was the fact that I filled in the original form on my own, but he failed to mention the fact that it took me 3 weeks to fill it in, because I could only do a little bit each day, and I did in fact send a letter to the benefits office telling them this! None of this was put in his report, but then none of the negatives were recorded only the positives! The fact that this doctor lied on this form horrifies me, he takes an oath when he becomes a doctor to say that he will always be true to his patients, so as far as I am concerned, he should be struck off!! And what is worse the whole examination took less than 40 minutes and the writing of the report took him less than 10, so my fate was decided in less than an hour!! It is a disgrace that these people are allowed to get away with this kind of thing, but as one person, it is difficult to fight it, but fight it I will, and I will be doing everything in my power to make sure this doctor is brought to task for the lies he has told in what is basically an official form and will alter my life substantially! I hope that this doctor never has to suffer the amount of pain and stress I have had to deal with in the last few weeks, and I hope that, for now, he sleeps well at night, because by the time I have finished with him, he may find that his life will be changed substantially too!