At 00:03 15/12/1996 GMT, Peter wrote:
>I thought I'd share this experience. It's been traumatic, and I learnt quite
>a lot.
>
big snip
>I'm still *** angry. If you can't do your job properly, you should do
>something else.
>
>I know life is tough at the moment. Trouble is, I've heard lots of similar
>stories recently, and I think the public sympathy for GP's is wearing very
>thin.
>
I don't know how to respond on behalf of that practice, so I won't.
As a "consumer" myself, I bitterly remember how I was treated by "the
student death centre" at university. The senior partner, FRCP so less,
refused to acknowledge my serious symptoms and I ended up having a year out
from university and suffering "mutilating surgery", ... twice.
IMHO, every doctor needs/should have a serious illness to appreciate what it
is like to really be patient.
As for public sympathy, the Primary Care Service is being crushed beneath an
ever increasing tide of inappropriate demand. Most of it non-medical and
bureaucratic. Sadly this leaves us less time and patience for the proper
medical stuff:-(
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Dr David J Plews
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