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"Like many other GPs around the country, I’m spending more and more time writing medical reports to appeal on behalf of patients who have been refused welfare benefit payments"
Laudable as it may seem this is neither contractual, what GPs were trained for and perpetuates the commonly-held belief that it's a GPs work
Re: Helen Salisbury: Doctors’ duties in a fractured welfare state
"Like many other GPs around the country, I’m spending more and more time writing medical reports to appeal on behalf of patients who have been refused welfare benefit payments"
Laudable as it may seem this is neither contractual, what GPs were trained for and perpetuates the commonly-held belief that it's a GPs work
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