How to embarrass your GP
Wow – Talk about empowering patients! Now there is going to be an NHS website where you can rate your GP. This fantastic and innovative idea should certainly keep doctors on their toes. They should introduce this in cricket too. The crowd, rather than the TV umpire/referees sitting in their ivory towers sipping sherry, should be the ones who decide whether the batsman is out or not. I’ve known cricket fans who are so knowledgeable that they can make an lbw decision from any seat in the grandstand.
To those who say that patients could vote with their feet and choose another doctor I say this: Why deprive patients of the schadenfreude of being able to name and shame their doctors on the internet? People could even organise orchestrated campaigns against particularly annoying GPs. All patients should be encouraged to take a stopwatch to all consultations to time the exact length of their appointments. This will enable the British public to identify the fastest GP in the NHS!
The British Medical Association is churlish to be critical of this brilliant idea of letting patients rate doctors. Many patients have accurately rated surgeons for decades by the neatness of their scars. What’s wrong with that? Or perhaps we should have all NHS operations recorded and shown on the internet so that patients can be comprehensively informed when it comes to choosing a surgeon.
On a lighter note, people could actually rate those awful jokes told by NHS surgeons in theatre. Modern technology could help us find not only the best surgeon on the NHS but the funniest one too! Or the least funny one, or the most sycophantic response to a bad joke… When it comes to rating doctors, it seem the possibilities are limitless.
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