SHOULD EPONYMS BE ABANDONED?

It is difficult to read some of these papers outside the context of the world that we practise in. As I write these thoughts, we are about to be assailed by yet another orchestrated, Government-inspired attack on general practice. The latest is led by an eminent London surgeon. Yes, who do they get to review UK general practice? A tertiary hospital¹ consultant surgeon² based in London³ who has been ennobled by the New Labour Party.⁴ I can’t help feeling that the spinmeisters have already half written the report to say what they want it to say (pace Hutton and Butler reports).

A management consultant who sits on various boards wants us to believe that we are getting a good deal with the Government’s IT strategy. I should leave the politics alone, and there has been a lot of interesting stuff in the last two months, so enjoy that and savour general practice before the worthy fools in London dismember it (Can I say this? No [Ed.]).

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