<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Connell, David G</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Patient care — crunch time</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009-07-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">546-547</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp09X453648</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">59</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">564</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The NHS carried me into the world, slapped my backside and gave me breath, kept me warm and fed, vaccinated me, supplied the occasional antibiotic, filled my teeth (mercury and gold), X-rayed me and reassured me, trained me for my lifelong profession, brought my son into the world and saved his life, sorted out my wife's pain, embraced my father and father-in-law as they both slipped comfortably to the grave, and now turns its attention back to me as my family history looms in view. Thank you.Only doctors born in the early 1920s will now remember practising in Britain before the inception of the NHS in 1948.My professional career in primary care has enjoyed a halcyon time, largely able to consider patient care in an atmosphere unmuddied by constraints of cost and the patient's ability to pay.True, the occasional momentary dryness of mouth when I stand, goserelin poised, reminds me that all this of course has to be paid for somewhere, but this is not a conflicting consideration at the immediate coal face of patient care.Our …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>