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We're getting that now, because it takes so long to get in to see a doctor. We have a thing called 'urgent care centres' which are kind of like non-emergency emergency centres. Trying to save Accident and Emergency rooms for real emergencies, they want people to go to the UCC with smaller breaks, twists, sprains, cuts, things like that.
Bottom line, though, is that we don't have enough GPs - the old country GP is 50-60, and will retire in the next 20 years, and we're not training enough to take over. So waiting times go up for that, and people go to hospitals.
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Don't they still use leeches in the UK?
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And I might venture a guess as to why that's happening. I can't think of any professional more scrutinized then a physician. if I want to be a doctor I probably have to work harder than any attorney or engineer or scientist and bear a lot more responsibility. it seems if the way of the world is going toward socialized medicine less of the brightest candidates will want to go into medicine. especially when you see TV commercials and billboards for multi millionaire jerk off PI attorneys. Too bad we couldn't put together some kind of United States Britain compromised medical system.
WSS
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And I might venture a guess as to why that's happening. I can't think of any professional more scrutinized then a physician. if I want to be a doctor I probably have to work harder than any attorney or engineer or scientist and bear a lot more responsibility. it seems if the way of the world is going toward socialized medicine less of the brightest candidates will want to go into medicine. especially when you see TV commercials and billboards for multi millionaire jerk off PI attorneys. Too bad we couldn't put together some kind of United States Britain compromised medical system.
WSS
And I might venture a guess as to why that's happening. I can't think of any professional more scrutinized then a physician. if I want to be a doctor I probably have to work harder than any attorney or engineer or scientist and bear a lot more responsibility. it seems if the way of the world is going toward socialized medicine less of the brightest candidates will want to go into medicine. especially when you see TV commercials and billboards for multi millionaire jerk off PI attorneys. Too bad we couldn't put together some kind of United States Britain compromised medical system.
WSS
health care over here has been socialised for somewhere around 100 years, so I don't think that's putting anybody off.
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Don't they still use leeches in the UK?
Don't they still use leeches in the UK?
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And I might venture a guess as to why that's happening. I can't think of any professional more scrutinized then a physician. if I want to be a doctor I probably have to work harder than any attorney or engineer or scientist and bear a lot more responsibility. it seems if the way of the world is going toward socialized medicine less of the brightest candidates will want to go into medicine. especially when you see TV commercials and billboards for multi millionaire jerk off PI attorneys. Too bad we couldn't put together some kind of United States Britain compromised medical system.
WSS
health care over here has been socialised for somewhere around 100 years, so I don't think that's putting anybody off.
health care over here has been socialised for somewhere around 100 years, so I don't think that's putting anybody off.
Yeah? Didn't you just say there weren't enough GPS and the wait time was really long?
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Yeah? Didn't you just say there weren't enough GPS and the wait time was really long?
Yes, but if it were because of socialised medicine, it would have always been like this - it wasn't. Maybe that plays a part, but I don't think we can say it's the only reason.
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Yeah? Didn't you just say there weren't enough GPS and the wait time was really long?
Yes, but if it were because of socialised medicine, it would have always been like this - it wasn't. Maybe that plays a part, but I don't think we can say it's the only reason.
Yes, but if it were because of socialised medicine, it would have always been like this - it wasn't. Maybe that plays a part, but I don't think we can say it's the only reason.
So how would you explain it? I don't know how many personal injury attorneys you have over there but we have a shit load. easier degree higher earnings potential and very little risk of killing a patient and almost no repercussion for fucking up a case.
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Don't they still use leeches in the UK? DH
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They used to, a lot, but those are rationed to one day a week, every other week,
and there is only two leeches per hospital.,
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Yes, but if it were because of socialised medicine, it would have always been like this - it wasn't. Maybe that plays a part, but I don't think we can say it's the only reason.
So how would you explain it? I don't know how many personal injury attorneys you have over there but we have a shit load. easier degree higher earnings potential and very little risk of killing a patient and almost no repercussion for fucking up a case.
WSS
So how would you explain it? I don't know how many personal injury attorneys you have over there but we have a shit load. easier degree higher earnings potential and very little risk of killing a patient and almost no repercussion for fucking up a case.
WSS
Another leech in the system. We didn't have the previously, but the last 10 years they've become a lot more prevalent.
Why then? Not sure. Money isn't *great* - though it's far from bad. Maybe the young doctors coming through get bored of treating little timmy's sniffles and great aunt doris' arthritis, and want to do something interesting. But, then, GPs do get cushy hours - 9-5, Mon-Fri, with usually a half day on Wednesdays.
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I'm guessing that GP is General Practitioner which is Primary Care Physician here.
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I'm guessing that GP is General Practitioner which is Primary Care Physician here.
I'm guessing that GP is General Practitioner which is Primary Care Physician here.
Well I have heard the term GP my whole life. seems like primary care physician has mostly come about since HMOs.
WSS
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GP is the doctor you are 'signed on' with, that is your main point of contact for health care. They know their patients a bit better than generic doctors. You make appointments to see them. They give you your vaccinations when you go on holiday - things like that.
So if that's Primary Care Physician, sure.
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Here GP is a general practitioner, often an internal medicine guy. ie not a specialist.
My primary care, or family doctor, is an internal medicine guy but before that it was a pediatrician.
WSS
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GP's are not specialists, for sure. I guess they can be from previous training, but they need to be knowledgeable about the whole of the body.
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In the Navy we never had a GP or whatever. Since I've been out I've always heard of it as PCP, never GP.
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