The stress and the heartbreaking missed chances that England’s GP appointment crisis has wrought was laid bare today by brave members of the public. <br>Dozens of Brits have shared shocking stories with MailOnline of how a lack of face-to-face appointments, or being trapped in the endless labyrinth of phone calls and online forms, has damaged their health.<br>One cancer-stricken woman claims her diagnosis was missed and that oncologists told her she ‘would have died’ had she not gone private. <br>Another said her desperate and repeated attempts to get an appointment during a mental health crisis had left her so tramautised she will never ring them again. <br><br>Here, MailOnline shares their horrifying stories.<br> Maria Christoforo said delays in seeing a GP almost cost her her life due to a delayed cancer diagnosis <br>Maria Christoforou: I would have died waiting for a face-to-face appointment <br>Maria Christoforou, of Pinner in Middlesex, told this website about her ‘horrendous’ experience with her GP.<br>She was extremely ill with an, at the time, unknown respiratory problem.<br>Ms Christoforou said she repeatedly contacted her GP for help, wanting to be seen face-to-face.
But she kept getting pushed back. <br>’I was extremely ill and kept on calling the GP but she refused to see me face to face, she kept on telling me I had a chest infection and prescribed antibiotics over the phone,’ she said.<br>She claimed to have contacted her practice three times over the course of a month requesting to be seen in-person, but each time the GP just prescribed a different type of antibiotic to treat her supposed infection. <br>On the fourth occasion, Ms Christoforou said she was so ill, the GP finally agreed to see her. <br>Her GP then tried to do a pulse oximetry test, which shines a light through the skin of the finger to detect the quantity of oxygen in the blood.<br>But Ms Christoforou said it was unsuccessful, and claimed the doctor told her to warm up her hands so they could get a reading. <br>buy levaquin kindly go to our website.
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