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?

Patients wait for treatment at Dukes Avenue Practice, an NHS doctor's surgery in North London. On the left a patient self checks her blood pressure.
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|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.

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