Surgery now has exactly 1 full time Doctor plus one who comes in on Tuesday afternoons (and she’s universally accepted as “useless”), plus a Nurse – this for a cluster of villages with a total population of over 14,000 people. We used to have 4 full time, but the Doctor shortage has it us hard.
((Pause to usher bumble bee back outside)
My GP used to be a MO in the RAF, and after that worked in Prisons as GP/MO (whatever) and with Young Offenders. So, maybe, he just doesn’t like his patients having easy access to drugs. 🙂