recently moved from middle class practice to a v deprived one (much more
professionmally rewarding) and have similar comments. Wot is it about the
semi-informed middle classes that makes them think they know more than their
doc, that GPs are second rate doctors compared to consultants and that the
consumers opinion is now equally valid to mine?
>From: Andy Lee <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: ethics of MMR
>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:15:38 -0000
>
>Fay Wilson wrote:
> > I'm so pleased we still manage to immunise almost all our kids in the
> > inner city estates (NB big efforts required - not because of
> > refusals, usually just parental disorganisation); if they got measles
> > from these middle class Thatcherites, they would suffer
> > disproportionately because they are poor and crowded and malnourished.
>
>Similar experience and sentiments. Our population is the most deprived
>district in the area (though not inner city) and our rates have remained
>high. The practices who seem to have had more difficulty are those with
>more
>middle class patients, as you say. Heard a guy on the radio yesterday
>talking about having his child immunised because he and his wife trusted
>their GP's advice at a time when he said the general consensus amongst his
>contacts (media folk and other middle classes) was that consenting to your
>child having MMR was tantamount to beating them.
>
>Andy
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