My Father was the local GP for many years. Every morning, 9-11, he held his "surgery" at our house, where he would treat his visiting patients and dish out self prepared prescriptions.
During the morning surgery time my Mother took incoming calls for visits for the day. At 11am my Father, sometimes with me in the passenger seat, would set off to visit the people who had requested a visit, and didn't go home until everyone had been seen. Then he had his evening surgery 6-7pm. And of course the phone was always on for "emergencies".
Last Wednesday I phoned the local surgery for an appointment, having developed a frozen neck overnight. Non available until today, eight days later! Do you have a drop in today, I asked as I was in some pain. No, this is canceled today as there is a meeting??
So a weeks worth of pain killers and I went today.
Where has the "system" gone wrong?
