Pressure on GPs: Patient Story

A prominent Canadian publisher went to his family doctor for his annual check. At the end of it he said that he had a few other things he wanted to ask her.

“Make another appointment,” she said as she turned and left the examining room.

He was startled and later, after consulting his medical friends about his two questions, he realized that it would have taken her two or three minutes, at most, to deal with them.

(His questions were about a discoloration of the skin around his eyes and a muscular pain in his shoulder.)

When asked what he would do about it he replied that he would speak to her. I have not yet heard the result of that conversation.

-- Sholom Glouberman