And, by the way, many of our teachers have been trained themselves and acculturated in a very disease-oriented paradigm, and for them it is very painful. Our young medical students, our entering students, are way ahead in the capacity to use and understand information technology. Well actually it could ease the problem, because many of the tasks which are associated with the business of medicine, can be put on a computer, which leaves the skills which the practitioner has to develop being quite different skills. I can now get that done for me. You're absolutely right, and I was a Minister for Health once upon a time, and round the Cabinet table, there is not a very deep understanding of the things you and I have been talking about in the last 15 minutes.
People still think of the episodes of illness as being what it's all about.
Well it's not. And then episodes of illness we look at. Well that's quite a different approach to the one that most of my colleagues understood. The trouble is that the fee for service system actually encourages the giving of too many remunerated services. The capitation system could, if it's not working, encourage no service for broken legs this week.