Ten Minute Doctors.

The BMA is right to point out that the widespread practice, driven by necessity, of GPs expecting to treat patients in a ten minute consultation is wrong by every measure. Ten minutes is not enough to deal with any but the most trivial of conditions or mundane of routines. These should anyway be carried out by pharmacists or nurses, who incidentally are collectively a lot less well used in this regard than in some European healthcare systems.

If a patient is ill enough to see a doctor, that patient is too ill to be fixed in ten minutes.

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