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Maybe get a better GP? Seriously, I've never encountered this attitude. Doctors seem to be generally fairly clinical and professional.

clojurestan 8y ago
Young man here, happens to me all the time
alibarber 8y ago
In my experience it's not the doctors, who without exception have always been pretty good - but the clerical / reception staff. I've rarely been made to feel so unwelcome anywhere else. It's gotten to the point where I just stump up the cash and go private, although now I feel things have gotten better with the introduction of app based consultations via the NHS, which I'm registered for but haven't needed to try out yet.
whattheasdf 8y ago
You assume that that is not only an option, that it is easy to do so, and that changing GP will make a difference when you are in a monopolistic system like a government captured and controlled healthcare where there is little to approaching zero incentive to differentiate and be exceptional. I frequently find myself confronted with the reality that most people don't seem to be able to fully refactor their thinking about things. They are unable to fully realize and consider the consequences and impacts of their actions on all aspects of the system they are proposing massive changes too. What's even more baffling is that this mentality is not only seemingly extremely well represented in the tech community, but that it can exist in the tech community at all without even the slightest pause about the impact of massive changes and zero appreciation for reflexive unintended (which really should be called unrealized) consequences. Another great example of this is the socialist/communist/marxist/progressive/liberal types' apparent inherently inability to comprehend that the policies and actions they advance and support will have equal and opposite reaction. There is so frequently today this assumption that "all other things will remain equal", which is absolutely never the case in a system, let alone a complex one.

clojurestan 8y ago

Young man here, happens to me all the time

alibarber 8y ago

In my experience it's not the doctors, who without exception have always been pretty good - but the clerical / reception staff. I've rarely been made to feel so unwelcome anywhere else. It's gotten to the point where I just stump up the cash and go private, although now I feel things have gotten better with the introduction of app based consultations via the NHS, which I'm registered for but haven't needed to try out yet.

whattheasdf 8y ago

You assume that that is not only an option, that it is easy to do so, and that changing GP will make a difference when you are in a monopolistic system like a government captured and controlled healthcare where there is little to approaching zero incentive to differentiate and be exceptional. I frequently find myself confronted with the reality that most people don't seem to be able to fully refactor their thinking about things. They are unable to fully realize and consider the consequences and impacts of their actions on all aspects of the system they are proposing massive changes too. What's even more baffling is that this mentality is not only seemingly extremely well represented in the tech community, but that it can exist in the tech community at all without even the slightest pause about the impact of massive changes and zero appreciation for reflexive unintended (which really should be called unrealized) consequences. Another great example of this is the socialist/communist/marxist/progressive/liberal types' apparent inherently inability to comprehend that the policies and actions they advance and support will have equal and opposite reaction. There is so frequently today this assumption that "all other things will remain equal", which is absolutely never the case in a system, let alone a complex one.