James Le Fanu: Doctor's diary - The Telegraph 18th February 2008

James Le Fanu on GPs’ hours, troops’ over-training, a novel fix for nocturnal pains, and the strange case of a sore toe Family doctors can hardly expect much public sympathy for their current stand against extending their surgery hours. It is increasingly clear that in negotiating their new contract, they sold their souls to the government in a Faustian deal: they would receive considerably more money for reaching centrally imposed health "targets", rather than practising proper medicine.

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