The social economic status is completely relevant to the efficacy of the treatment if you can’t afford it you don’t get it and any amount of verbiage won’t make it otherwise …
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Its a pity its take a crisis to highlight this. 
you said poor people were healthier because they had to walk everywhere. So what has changed? We all have sanitation and access to healthcare, even the poorest.
It seems odd to me that the NHS is paying retired Doctors, something over 20 pounds per jab, to come back in to the surgery & do the injections. so the surgeries are often packed with these retirees, at weekends.
It’s odd, to me, because I’ve always found Doctors to be the worst injectors & steered well clear of them when I was on regular Warfarin blood tests.
So who were the best injectors?
Yes, the practice Nurses!
And how many of them are paid to come back in, toi the Surgeries, to do the Covid jabs?
Nil here!
However, these nurses appear, very regularly, as free volunteers, down at the local Waitrose Depot, where all the big groups are jabbed.
Presumably the skilled jabbing (money grabbing) Doctors will find the time to come back in again, for a price, when the Flu Jabs get started.
Annie why not stop digging the hole deeper there is no comparison between health today and that of Victorian times if you are still in doubt read up about ‘our predecessors ‘ during the industrial revolution.
No many GPS are not specialists they are GPs.That is why most GPs refer one to a specialist when necessary.
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I would just as soon not be eaten by a polar bear 
Right you are Muddy. I bow to your superior knowledge 
Of course.Some may have a particular interest in something like children or musculoskeletal disorders,etc…but anything other than the straightforward they send you to a specialist.
I think what Annie’s saying is … GPs tend to have a special interest in a particular branch of medicine, often picking up an additional qualification along the the way. But, still, their job is to refer you to the relevant department.
True.
At our practice, there are eight partners or salaried doctors and some of them specialise: one in diabetes, one in respiratory medicine, one in child health and a couple who do minor operations and joint injections. I expect that a similar situation would be found in other large practices. Hopefully all GPs should be encouraged to follow one or more specialism as that would provide more local expertise without the need to immediately send patients to a hospital, probably entailing longer waiting times.
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It is a Lottery, literally.
You get to see who is on duty at the time.
Some are better than others, much. much, better.
This time round I had Dr Mistray most of the time.
Had him before and his drugs where cancelled because of the cost of them, not this time, out in days and things are much better.
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Doctors who think they know it all are not to be trusted .
My son was told he had Rosacea a disfiguring and incurable skin condition it caused him to sink in a deep depression and we were very worried for him . I told him to seek a second opinion with a different dr but at the same surgery . The GP was a complete and utter aRrogant AH he brusquely told my so he agreed with his colleague’s diagnosis and he would just have to live with it . My son was in the room all of three minutes .
I said we will go to Harley street if necessary I am not accepting this .
But my son decided to see the dr at the university who was a skin specialist . The dr poo pooed their diagnosis in about five minutes . Of course you haven’t got rosacea he was told you have dermatitis I have it myself ! The remedy washing the hair with coal tar shampoo cleared up within a couple of weeks .
Self styled ‘specialists are dangerous .
I agree. Not very good.
If you feel strongly enough about it, write a review.
Our practice has the facility for patients to write a review which is posted on their practice web site. There are certain rules, of course, such as not mentioning names, but I believe if more people did complain it might make a few of them wake up and smell the coffee (sorry, those last words just came into my head for some reason!).
Conversely, if you’ve had good treatment, do the same. That, too, might encourage improvement.
I was going too but didn’t it was years ago now .
The doctors at my practise are in general very nice and so they should be they are very well paid and all you need when you are ill is some AH treating you .
Luckily I rarely have to trouble any doctor ( touch wood ) up to now but I am getting older and I expect the day will come .
Quacks tend to Duck the issue. 
many years ago [so this may not be relevant?] I was directed to escort a mentally unfit patient to the board room of the hospital for a clinical review the patient was interviewed copiously by all [no one asked me a thing - out of either politeness or ignorance?] - and the patient walked out with 14 different diagnoses- he didn’t know which way to turn [true story btw]
Were these psychologists or psychiatrists?
I believe that both live on a different planet to us!
I trust my Specialist Arrhythmia nurse more than any doctor.
In the last few years I have seen various GPs and three Consultants and not one of them matches up to Nicky the nurse I first saw 4 years ago and again recently for a ‘Clinic consultation by telephone’ .
Nicky is knowledgeable, reassuring, friendly, prepared to spend time answering any questions and she doesn’t make you feel ‘Its not your place to ask that or to be well informed about your condition’ .
My Daughter in Law is Nurse Practitioner and says if you want to know something ask a nurse
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I’m not too happy for the fact that the Doctors need a Trade Union (Unite - Doctors in Unite – Standing up for doctors. Fighting for the NHS!
Sadly, it’s not clear that the Government can be trusted to look after the Doctors (and hence us!) if there wasn’t a Union, but I don’t think Unions are Public Serving!