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<blockquote data-quote="cold ethyl" data-source="post: 726058" data-attributes="member: 107467"><p>I think part of the problem is a failure to treat a patient as a person and to see them as just another cog in the tick box quality care machine. Many of the GPs at my practice have the bedside manner of a slug, a problem which will only worsen as more and more of the care is offered over the phone or online. It isn't enough to be a four A* student to get on the medical degree course.. You need to be able to deal with people as individuals not just as high risk groups etc. Also, it is easy to forget best practice when it is tied to financial rewards. Far better that GPs had a ceiling salary independently of targets which may or may not be based on good science. We are conditioned to think that science offers some sort of objective reality when in fact it is as biased as any other academic discipline through ties to industry. And what works in one research project may or may not replicated in a wider population. There is plenty of evidence that higher cholesterol may be beneficial as we get older, in women and some evidence that its role in CVD is overplayed and misunderstood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cold ethyl, post: 726058, member: 107467"] I think part of the problem is a failure to treat a patient as a person and to see them as just another cog in the tick box quality care machine. Many of the GPs at my practice have the bedside manner of a slug, a problem which will only worsen as more and more of the care is offered over the phone or online. It isn't enough to be a four A* student to get on the medical degree course.. You need to be able to deal with people as individuals not just as high risk groups etc. Also, it is easy to forget best practice when it is tied to financial rewards. Far better that GPs had a ceiling salary independently of targets which may or may not be based on good science. We are conditioned to think that science offers some sort of objective reality when in fact it is as biased as any other academic discipline through ties to industry. And what works in one research project may or may not replicated in a wider population. There is plenty of evidence that higher cholesterol may be beneficial as we get older, in women and some evidence that its role in CVD is overplayed and misunderstood. [/QUOTE]
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