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Articles about the incomes of Hospital Consultants and General
Practitioners are placed side by side, each with an accompanying image.
The image chosen to represent Consultants shows surgeons bent over a
patient while an x-ray glows in the background. The picture is blurred to
suggest speed, tension and drama.
The GP image is a pile of money, which is, of course, all we do in
general practice.
Obviously these are just two small photographs chosen from an image
bank to add impact to a page and break up large blocks of text. We
shouldn’t read too much into them, but they do tend to suggest that the
popular perception of GPs is shared by our journal of choice.
Interesting picture choice.
Articles about the incomes of Hospital Consultants and General
Practitioners are placed side by side, each with an accompanying image.
The image chosen to represent Consultants shows surgeons bent over a
patient while an x-ray glows in the background. The picture is blurred to
suggest speed, tension and drama.
The GP image is a pile of money, which is, of course, all we do in
general practice.
Obviously these are just two small photographs chosen from an image
bank to add impact to a page and break up large blocks of text. We
shouldn’t read too much into them, but they do tend to suggest that the
popular perception of GPs is shared by our journal of choice.
Competing interests:
NHS General practitioner
Competing interests: No competing interests