Fed up with doctors surgeries not opening up

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This issue has nothing to do with being social. This issue is about being irrational and emotional. If you believe several detailed macro photos of your mole is somehow inferior to showing it to a doctor in person for 30 seconds you are being irrational and emotional.

I think people are entitled to have a preference as to what sort of medical care they get. You can't really tell somebody they're wrong to feel as they do.

Yes, they are entitled to have a preference. But this issue is not about preference, this is about rationalization of your irrational emotions, just like racists, homophobes, etc invent rational explanations to justify their irrational fears and beliefs. If these beliefs are backwards, wrong and hurt progress of humanity, I believe we should acknowledge and address these issues by trying to be more rational, educated, by trying to overcome our impulses. So I don't see anything wrong with pointing out when that's the case.

I believe the British GP system was becoming unfit for purpose well before the Covid business came along. The GPs are self-employed, yet act as 'gatekeepers' to the National Health Service. Something not quite right there. They have no real diagnostic equipment in their surgeries, yet patients are at their mercy as to whether the GP will refer them to a specialist or for hospital tests.

You hear and read about some really scary stories where the GP has missed some fairly obvious symptoms, has blocked access to a specialist, then the patient is diagnosed too late or not at all, and dies. It's happened to a good number of people I've known, including family members.