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My experience mirrors yours. I have quite a few lousy experiences with doctors across the world. But the one I am narrating below was particularly scary and I might have gotten into serious health issues because of sheer incomptence of an entire hospital.

Some years back in London I fell ill with constant high fever. Following the protocol, I took paracetamol for 5 days but my condition worsened.

So I checked into the hospital. It is considered a decent NHS hospital. They promptly took blood samples and put me in isolation suspecting some infection. But despite being reporting that paracetamol is not helping they kept giving out to me religiously for 10 more days. Everyday they would collect blood samples and assure me that they are going to find the root cause and then start the proper medication.

After 15 days of constant 40C fever, they still don't wanted to treat me. On 16 day, barely conscious almost naked in ill fitting hospital gown I walked out of my room and screamed and probably abused the staff and collapsed on the floor.

Then only they have me broad spectrum antibiotics and in next few days I was back home.

At that time I researched that it is common protocol to administer broad spectrum Antibiotic if diagnosis is non conclusive.

I still wonder what would have hapenned if I hadn't taken it to the floor on 16th day.