GPs are getting more and more on their plate: ‘It’s enough like this’ | Inland

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A corona recovery certificate? Is there no medical examiner to determine a cause of death? Is there no place for your child at the school? Ask the doctor. With increasing astonishment, this profession sees how easily they are given more and more tasks that do not belong to their basic tasks at all. ‘It’s enough like this. The GP is not there to solve the gaps in the other sectors”, says Mirjam van ‘t Veld of the National Association of General Practitioners (LHV).

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