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My own arrival in the "other" thread was prompted by TheFlyingPhysio's reference to Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle modelled Holmes, of course, on Professor Bell of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, famed for his inductive skills. He observed and reasoned. He diagnosed not only ailments but whole ways of life.
I have just erased three paragraphs because I wish not to disclose experience that anyone might even remotely identify. I'll just say that for any diagnosing neeeded on Davaar and Davaar's, qualified physicians only need apply.
I am quite ready to disbelieve any official public statement made about the ability of health scheme to deliver good and timely service. I do not automatically disbelieve such a statement, but the fact of its being made means no more than that it has been made. Spare me from the nurse practitioners.