> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:49:05 +0100, Bear gmail.com>
> blethered:
>

>>In article 4ax.com>, Mike Fleming
>>says...

>>> In article 4ax.com>, Halla
>>> drunkenbastards.spam.com> writes:
>>>

>>>> I currently have a fairly low opinion of
>>>> GPs as a group, too.

>>>
>>> I think they've gone a long way downhill since my mum was one, 15
>>> years ago or so. They now seem to be more business than medicine
>>> orientated, which may or may not be coincidental with the rise in
>>> proportion of Asian GPs.

>>
>>a) they were always business orientated, or at least have been for at
>>least the last 30 years. It always attracted those who wanted to be
>>part of Healthcare, but wanted to run their own ship, as it were. Go
>>back to the first punch-ups over OOH payments and terms, some 15 years
>>back, as an example.
>>
>>b) I'm intrigued; what is the percentage "increase" is in "Asian GPs" in
>>the last, say, 20 years?

>
> I'm imagining a lot of Indian mothers being very frustrated by that
> news: One proclaiming "My son is a doctor you know" and all her
> friends chorussing "Yes, so is mine".