is what unnecessary calls to the GP cost the NHS every year, according to a report published today. And every GP will agree with me when I say I see 6 or 7 people every day who don't need to be there. They are not malingerers: sometimes they are afraid, but just as often they form part of a group for whom any deviation of health is unacceptable. They don't understand that colds, and their attendant symptoms of sore throat, nasal congestion and headache ARE acceptable deviations of health, and that human beings everywhere experience and recover from them in a few days.
We should take a leaf out of the book of the chronically and seriously ill, most of whom endure much worse things and for much longer, yet still many of them continue to lead their lives to their best ability.
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