I AM writing about the instance when a doctor misses a patient’s symptoms during a visit to the surgery.
Should the doctor who gets it wrong be named and shamed, or is the answer to throw more money at the problem?
A GP is painfully aware that there is a crowded waiting room outside where someone might need more urgent attention.
It is inevitable that mistakes will be made. Speak up any reader who can say hands on heart that they have never made a serious mistake.
There may be useful recommendations to be made about the work of GPs, but there are so many after the event specialists that we need to be guarded about knee-jerk solutions.
Am I totally satisfied with my GP? No. But I have to admit that I am 86 and the medication he has prescribed has worked so far.
G Bulmer, Billingham.
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