Nearly eighty years ago, when the UK NHS came into being, one could argue that for the purpose of that NHS, all people were clones. Today however, with the wonderful advances provided by generations of enlightened British educationalists and social spending on the masses, it is reasonable to presume that some form of general intelligence and adaptive inquisitiveness has trickled down through to the bottoms of those people who seem most to benefit from a socialist, if relatively humane system of medicine.
The NHS of today has perforce to treat people as though they were clones. The beast is top heavy and much of that overweight is old and past its time. But both in evolution and in fact, it should not be the responsibility of a communal medical service to spoon feed each and every patient according to his precise bespoke needs. There should be the potential for some assumption of vicarious responsibility on the part of the erstwhile clone at the end of the medical teaspoon. In spite of the appearances generated in many hospital waiting areas up and down the country, there is no reason to suppose that patients have been lobotomised at birth although it seems reasonable to suppose that such is the appearance, presented at the time of consultation, to many a poor benighted medical practitioner.