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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
We don't have all the facts here and in cases like this we need them to come to a conclusion. We have no idea if this was a one off or if the family routinely made appointments and turned up late or not at all and we have very little to judge the GP on. On the face of it it looks bad and tragic but that happens often and the facts come out and a wholey different picture is seen. From my own personal experience in over thirty years of NHS involvement I've never met a GP that was in it for the cash they have always been decent people with a deep desire to do whats best for their patients maybe I've been lucky.
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We all have sympathies with our GPs and NHS staff at times. Having said that I can't remember the last time I saw any medical practitioner anywhere near on time and that includes our son's numerous appointments which we have to attend.
What we do have here, however, is an official report's conclusions about the GP, her long standing attitude problem and the fact that, in spite of what she claimed, she wasn't seeing other patients at the time so could have seen the little girl. There's no doubt about any of that. Even if there were issues with the parent's prior attendance record (and there's nothing to suggest it), the 5 year old girl was certainly not responsible for any of it was she. In the final analysis, they were less than 10 mins late, the GP was free and the child could/should have been seen or at least the family advised to go to A&E or call an ambulance. We don't know why the latter wasn't done more promptly but that decision, or anything else for that matter, doesn't validate the GP's appalling behaviour.