TY - JOUR T1 - Bring Hippocrates to the people and save the NHS JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 420 LP - 420 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X686221 VL - 65 IS - 637 AU - Adam Staten Y1 - 2015/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/637/420.abstract N2 - When Jeremy Hunt decided to take his children to A&E rather than wait for a GP appointment, or indeed, rather than making use of the out-of-hours GP service, he defended his decision with a speech that included an incredibly bleak assessment of the British people. His declaration that people could no longer tell what is urgent and what is not is tantamount to describing the population as a mass of unteachable buffoons. Perhaps Hunt is projecting when he sees the public as mindlessly staggering through life constantly posing a great danger to themselves and requiring a doctor to be within arm’s length at all times.It seems he feels that the gene pool that gave us the industrial revolution has degenerated to … ER -