A recent article in Pulse indicated that medical school deans are smearing general practice and indicating that it is a second class choice – do it if you can’t do hospital medicine. The phrase “how very dare you” comes to mind.
Sir John Oldham, chair of the Independent Commission on Whole-Person Care and a GP in Glossop, wrote on Twitter that a medical school dean told a new intake of students last September that “We work you hard because we don’t want you to fail and become GPs”.
Distorted image
Now this distorted image has been around for a long time; I recall hospital doctors 30 years ago being very ready to elevate their own status by being derogatory about their GP colleagues.
