If I could give a 0 stars I would. I went to see Dr Dade. When I tried to explain why I was there, he humiliated me and even raised his voice. It was so bad that I started crying. I said I was sorry and that I was trying my best to do all the forms correctly but that I was given so much conflicting information that I felt confused. At which point he humiliated me further and was very dismissive of my feelings. He argued that I hadn’t been there for two years and couldn’t expect a medical assessment to be done that day, I said I understood that and agreed with that and explained my reasoning for not going to that medical centre in the last two years is because we are currently in a pandemic and there was no need to. He accused me of putting off the forms for two years, to which I explained I had only received the forms for the medical assessment from child protection in September (2 months prior to my visit). I asked for a tissue, to which he threw down the box beside me and then when I went to explain again he wouldn’t listen and said “we are going around in circles”, said he would use my inability to handle stress within the medical assessment. He offered me bloods to do and then told me to make another appointment. He again said he would never signed anything without all the paperwork, to which I again explained that I brought only what I was told and was happy to come back with it all again. He made comments on my inability to handle stress again, and possible inability to handle children. When I went to respond that I already had two biological children and that I WASN’T crying because I was stressed, but because I was frustrated that we were both in this situation from me being given the wrong information on what to bring and that I’ve been trying so hard to get everything done properly he turned around and dismissed me again.

I went in to get a medical assessment to become a permanent carer for a foster child & left crying in the bathroom of the doctors and in my car for two hours.