TY - JOUR T1 - Virtue trumps duty JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 494 LP - 494 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X720881 VL - 72 IS - 723 AU - Saul Miller Y1 - 2022/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/723/494.abstract N2 - We have a few. Mostly older chaps, retired now but have been the officers rather than the rank-and-file, and they’ll damn-and-blast before accepting this new-fangled system. Today, though, the objector is female and unclassifiable.‘I’m concerned about your health’, I start earnestly. ‘You’ve had heart problems and yet you don’t seem to be taking any of your medicines.’ Alerts and pop-ups ping as I open her notes.‘They made me ill!’ She’s indignant, as though I have just insulted her pooch. ‘One of them had my bladder like a paper bag and yet my legs swelled like balloons.’I am a coward at heart but desperate too: there are a lot of targets riding on this. ‘Fancy having another go at all?’ … ER -