Impractical and unjust

doi:10.1136/bmj.39520.564792.3A

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Duncan A H Edwards, general practitioner registrar

¹Cambridge

dedwards333{at}hotmail.com

No matter where you stand on immigration, I find it hard to see how denying primary care to a person can be compatible with being a doctor.1 Credit to Iona Heath, and also Frank Arnold, for highlighting this looming injustice. Fairly recently, a politician also highlighted that a policy of excluding “illegals” is as impractical as it is unjust:

“One of …