Britain | Dr no go
General practitioners are a big part of Britain’s health-care crisis
Public dissatisfaction with GPs is growing fast. Is that fair?
|Mountain Ash
Sajad ahmad seems to have a nice life. He makes good money working as a part-time general practitioner (GP), a family doctor, in the small town of Mountain Ash in southern Wales. From a fancy Scandinavian-style building, his consulting room looks out over hills of burnished copper crowned with firs.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Dr no go”
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