Many Consultants aren’t overly keen on telephone consultations, as patients lie about their symptoms or their severity more often than you’d think possible. So the preference is to look in the patients eyes so to speak.
That’s not so say there’s not plenty that can be done over the phone, especially just routine follow ups.
Worse case I had, was years back, some of the old codger GP's that should have retired years ago, not all, but some of them were a fooking liability. Lawyers are the same [HASHTAG]#HiaG[/HASHTAG]
