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by Cthulhu_ 4179 days ago
When said GP has a few million to spend on stuff like this. And when they're no longer needed to send 80% of people home because they have the sniffles and need a doctor to tell them it's just a cold instead of ebola. (Because that's what GP's do in a lot of cases - deal with people who think they've got something worth going to a doctor for).
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Yeah, my mom (who is a doctor) was just complaining about this, when she just started out she was a GP in pediatrics and said that 95% of cases were the common cold + over reacting parent, it made it much more difficult to find the interesting cases (read: actually sick kids who needed real treatment), she now works in ICUs and ERs and loves every minute.