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The surgery I used to work for had a very high Asian patient list, usually the only problem was the language barrier which could be overcome with sign language and patience !! One morning an Asian chap kept coming to the counter every couple of minutes wanting to know why the doctor was taking so long, when was it his turn? I advised him that the doctor would call when he was ready and that there was always a wait for this GP. He then literally stormed out saying he would ring for a home visit. About 10 minutes later a woman rang asking for a visit. We always asked who the visit was for and a brief idea why. The caller then launched into a volley of abuse, called my friend who had answered a "fecking white biatch" how she was going to beat the sh*t out of her etc etc and said she was this chaps niece. A decision was taken by the GP's to remove this family from the list. Lo and behold a couple of weeks later the surgery receive a letter from the GMC saying that we were being accused of racial harrassment and racial abuse !!! I had to make a statement, solicitors were involved and then to top it all the family said they would drop the case if we would let them back on the surgery list !!

Racism can definately work both ways but it would seem from experience that abuse to "white" people isn't taken seriously. It would seem to me that the whole issue has gotten totally out of hand. Would there have been so much outrage if an Arab reporter had ****ged the British people off in an Arab newspaper, I think perhaps not.