(September 19, 2013 at 5:58 am)Aractus Wrote: In the UK, all doctors are paid the same salary, and you do not get a choice what doctor you see.
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Yes you do. Where I live there are something like half a dozen GP practises within easy travel distance. I could have selected any of them to sign up to, I just happened to choose the one an easy walk from my home. I could be, and I have been, seen at any other practise for any number of reasons. There is also an NHS "walk-in" centre, which takes everyone.
There are about five or six doctors, plus several nurses, at my local practise (it being quite small) but the one a little further out to which my Sam used to go - she joined before we moved in together and, having got friendly with the staff, didn't want to change practises - has probably five times that many. Out of all these medical staff, I could choose to be seen by any one of them I wish.
Please don't give our colonial cousins any more wrong ideas about our country - they already think we drink warm beer, have bad teeth and talk like Dick Van Dyke (the Cockney Strangler in Mary Poppins) or else extras from Pride And Prejudice.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
