Ask *any* portuguese GP about - we have plenty of :-(
Constantino Santos
Felgueiras, Portugal
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Date: Sexta-feira, 12 de Junho de 1998 13:57
Subject: A foul tasting cocktail, patients mixing NHS with Private
|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. Most of my local consultants seem to allow them to do this.
|I personally it makes a mockerey of the NHS. We have a two tier system.
|I got stroppy when a lady who had seen an ENT man locally and wanted the
|private script for Nasocort changed to an FP10. I gave in but she kept on
|about how her health insurance was a company perk and as I mentioned above
|pleaded poverty.
|Free at the point of delivery.......b&&*(*((cks!!
|Do any of you folks get this problem and what do you do about it?
|Shahid Dadabhoy
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