Under fire on the front line, but GPs are still doing well

BEING a GP must be one of the toughest jobs in medicine. They are expected to be instant experts on all manner of illnesses that walk through their door on a daily basis.

They wade through mountains of paperwork, sending letters to hospital consultants, only for them to be lost in the system and starting from scratch. And, if reports are to be believed, their writing hands must be numb from filling out so many sick no...