The Ghosts of Christmas present, past, and future
What happens when the borrowed money runs out?
The sorry Tales from the Frontline Carl told made me shiver.
I come from an age when my surgery was accessible within 24 hours, and my activity and my staff’s activity were not chasing people to be vaccinated. We tried to listen to our patients, occasionally curing and always trying to help. This was within the constraints of 40-50 appointments a day, plus home visits in between.
Being a principal in general practice in Aldershot, most of my patients were ex-services like me. Two had actually jumped at Arnhem, and one had lost a leg on D-Day.
We may not have been the best practice in England, but we did try, and like us, I am sure many more are still trying hard to do what they were trained to do today in challenging circumstances.
So? The so is: despite a broken system with considerable gaps in the care pathway.
What Carl and many of our subscribers describe is unacceptable in a civilised society.
The “Superflu” fiasco laid bare some of the chronic wounds that had hardly healed from the Co…
