Had a 9:30 appt this am at a local health centre for an abdominal aorta scan (I just qualified by age).
It's quite a big building, bigger than a few houses, and contains quite a number of GPs, and when I've used it before (pre COVID) it's been fairly busy. Today you buzz the door and they open the door, squirt some stuff on your hands and take your temp then you are allowed in.
They've taken away the chairs in the communal waiting area so you stand on a socially distanced yellow cross waiting for your appt. In the old days it would have had 15 or 20 people sitting there. Today at the time I was there there was one older woman and a mum with child, and that was it.
Aren't people getting sick, have all the ill ones died or are the docs just not doing much? I know I've been directed towards video doc so maybe that's what's going on, but what are the docs doing with their time??? (I'm sure they are very busy in reality but at my own medical centre it seems impossible to get in and see one of them - I don't blame them for playing hard to get but where are they?.)
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