At the time, newspaper editorials criticized the strategy, saying the doctor-patient relationship was the last place into which politics should intrude. But it's not my system. Joy MacPhail's system. The system belongs to the people.
People pay for it.
They pay doctors and others to work in it, and the government to run it. But it's the people's system, and the system is crumbling at the edges. It's my job, my responsibility to tell people that truth When you think about it, it's actually a health promotion function to sit there and say to a patient your access to the system is being compromised even though you might not be sick now If you're happy with that fine. If not, then tell somebody. That's all I'm saying.