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You may have gotten off lightly.
Last year I presented the form to a young doctor GP? at the local surgery. She did the blood pressure, OK, fine but when she did my heart with the stethoscope she took ages and I could see her looking at me out of my peripheral vision.
She then told me that she couldn't sign it and referred me to Guy's for an ECG examination explaining that she could hear a 'noise' (my heartbeat?).
I think that was around April I finally had the tests in June and passed with flying colours. Went back to the surgery re-presented the form she looked at the data and finally signed me off.
To say it embuggered my preperation is an understatement. Basically I was to worried about going over 80% in case I popped it on a Surrey hill all alone.
But I guess she had to do what she thought was right.
By the way... when I went to collect my bib number etc. the French girl just took the form and didn't even glance at it. I think there were 16,000 riders last year so that's a lot of forms.
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Medical certificate query.
I printed off the standard form and took it along to my GP surgery, but saw a junior doctor who insisted on following protocol, and despite taking my BP and giving me the once over with the stethoscope, crossed out "certify that the examination of" and wrote over the top "on the basis of medical records", that I'm OK to participate in cycle competitions - but also included numbers for BP, HR and SATS (thereby indicating that an examination did take place!) It's signed and stamped. Will this be OK?