...GPs have been quick to defend their high pay saying, not wrongly, that they are being paid to detect hitherto hidden diseases. Indeed, thanks to their financially incentivised activity we now realise there is far more hypertension than previously known.
What, though, is lacking from this explanation is that GPs have focused on those conditions that generate income. Wouldn't you?
Sadly, depression in older people - so prevalent and so costly to the private soul as to the public purse - is not an income generating target, with the totally predictable consequence that it is no more diagnosed or treated now than ever it was.
(That's what Bro. Charlie tell me anyways.)
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