Shahid typed:
> I am getting increasingly annoyed by some of my patients who feel they can pay
> for a one off appointment with a consultant privately, then proceed to plead
> poverty and then get listed for their op or generally get into the system
> faster on the NHS.
For this very reason, most (many?) of the orthopods in
Manchester (and a fair number of other consultants) are
reluctant to see anyone unless they have insurance
(rather than someone stumping up a hundred quid for
a one-off appt). Which I can understand.
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