No time for knitting in frenetic modern-day general practice

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No time for knitting in frenetic modern-day general practice

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Practice receptionists in the 1970s seemed to have a lot of time on their hands, writes Judy Gilmour

Judy Gilmour recalls a quieter, gentler era of general practice before compliance and computers

When I was a child attending my doctor’s clinic in the early 1970s, reception­ists seemed to me to be someone with a lot of time on their hands. They