TY - JOUR T1 - A patient's diary: episode 9 — misplaced organ JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 756 LP - 757 VL - 57 IS - 542 A2 - , Y1 - 2007/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/542/756.abstract N2 - Yesterday morning Hilda revealed that she had made me an appointment to see Dr Teacher. It seems that she has been worried about my state of mind ever since they told me at the New Hospital that they couldn't find anything wrong with my liver. Well, naturally, one feels a little disheartened when a leading liver specialist confesses himself beaten by the insidiousness and subtlety of the disease processes working within one's body. Where to turn next, I wondered. America? Could be expensive. Russia? They are good at sewing back severed hands but how much do they know about the liver?It was thoughtful of her to make the appointment, but quite honestly I didn't really see what else Dr Teacher could do. He is, after all, only a GP and not even one with a Special Interest. Personally, I would rather have gone to Dr Brenda, who, while not a specialist either, tends to have an intuitive feeling about things. But she is on holiday so Dr Teacher it had to be. Good of him to take an interest anyway.In the event I was quite glad to have an appointment to go to in the evening because, during the day, an entirely new pain came on, in the region of the liver but quite different from anything I'd experienced before. It felt as though a blocked bile duct had swollen up like an over-inflated balloon and was about to burst. In the midst of my … ER -