Patient-hoarding is not the way: What if GPs could discharge their patients the way hospitals do?

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Patient-hoarding is not the way: What if GPs could discharge their patients the way hospitals do?

Glen Davies
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GPs’ feelings of being overwhelmed, and drowning in demands and requests cannot be sustained [Image: Aubree Herrick on Unsplash]

Change the GP clinic into a centre of excellence for disease reversal with programmes lasting a defined period of time before we discharge clients back to the community, suggests Glen Davies

It is distressing to read in New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa about the level of dissatisfaction in the general practice community, with 37 per cent o