Some good NHS and GP bashing.
I suspect you actually spent more than 3 minutes in your GP's consulting room. If not I have yet to learn a lot about expedient consultations.
I learned a long time ago that 80% of diagnoses is made on the history of the patient alone.
This was confirmed when I attended a seminar in the States last week where an eminent neurologist stated that he would rather spend 30 minutes talking to a patient on the phone rather than examining them for the same time (if those were the only options available)
Unfortunately the NHS is under resourced and this means that some investigations happen at a different phase in the diagnosis/treatment cycle than in other health services.
That is not a choice made by clinicians but by society as a whole.
Did you ask what you could expect with regards to the lesion on your forearm? If you forgot; go back and ask! If your GP forgot; go back and ask.
No doubt you have been given an invitation to revisit your clinician if your symptoms persist and that is what you should do when the need arises.
Apropos diagnosis, can you enlighten me on whether your osteopath used an MRI to come to the diagnosis? If not what is the difference between the validity of diagnoses made by each and the methods used to come to it?
FD