Why are today’s GPs so lazy?

Years ago it was a part of their job to travel to the homes of patients who were too sick to get in to the surgery, but not anymore. Now it is all but impossible to get a doctor to visit someone at home.

My parents, who are both eighty years old, have been really poorly on a few different occasions. Each time they have rung the doctor he has refused to come out and see them. Instead of this he has prescribed drugs over the phone without even examining them. Is this actually allowed??? I think that it is downright disgusting.

When you go into a surgery it is now quite rare to see your doctor get out of his/her chair. All they seem to want is do is to tap away on their computer for a few seconds and then print off a prescription. Surely they should still do standard checks such as taking your pulse and blood pressure?

I don’t know why it is, but it seems that a cloud of apathy has engulfed many of our GPs these days. They earn a colossal amount of money yet they appear to be doing less and less to actually earn it. You will be hard pushed to find a surgery that is open on a Saturday morning anymore and you will probably have to make your own way to the local hospital instead. Wouldn’t it be a better idea if doctors worked by a rota system on Saturdays? In fact, if they did that then surgeries could be kept open all weekend! And it would create more jobs because of the extra receptionists that were needed.

We all know what a terrible state the health service is in. Maybe, if the government had a look at the way that GPs work (or don’t), things could be changed for the better.

One last thing before I go that may be surprising to you all, last week it was my birthday, and my friend Marium gave me a chemical skin peels as a gift. Firstly, I have no idea what she was trying to convey me; but after I got over the comparative blow of how add the present was, I went and realized that it was actually quite lovely. I may actually buy one for my sister for her birthday!