Totally agree with your perspective Nova, I feel like I get rushed out of the door at GP appointments, not that I’ve seen one in person for a long time. My review was by phone and my initial consultation was with a paramedic who couldn’t prescribe but had to consult a GP to get a prescription for propranolol for me. She hadn’t got her prescribing qualification so her knowledge of medicine wasn’t full, she basically looked up migraine preventative meds on the computer. Like you I really do understand the pressures GP practices are under but there was no way she could discuss propranolol with me because she hadn’t the knowledge. I read the leaflet with the listed side effects and decided I could live with those. It’s only recently I became aware of the statistical vascular dementia increase risk and the cholesterol (triglycerides particularly) increase. If I’d been aware of that two years ago I wouldn’t have begun taking it.