Tim Dower: Is it time to make GP's free?
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Wed, 28 Apr 2021, 11:41AM
The following was overheard a little while back in the waiting room at Middlemore Hospital's Emergency Department.
Two women discussing the long wait to see a doctor.
One was complaining about her sore back.
The other told the story of her previous visit to the ED, she'd only come in with a cough she said, but ended up staying the night.
It must have been a bad cough.
I only mention that because it illustrated one of the most glaring problems we've got in our health system.