Britain’s Family Doctors Call for End to Free Treatment
Britain’s family doctors have decided to press for an end to free treatment for patients under the socialized health service
reports the
Herald Tribune.
The decision, announced by the British Medical Association, is intended
to reduce overcrowding in consulting rooms and ease the burden of the
country’s doctors. The BMA council’s chairman, J.R. Nicholson-Lailey,
said that the BMA did not want these payments collected by the doctor.
Mr. Nicholson-Lailey’s statement indicated that the payments might be
used to keep persons with frivolous complaints from monopolizing the
doctor’s time.
