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Should I be 'ashamed' to be a GP? An open letter to Steve Field

The government's chief inspector of GPs told the Daily Mail this week that GPs have 'failed as a profession'. But who is helped by his morale-crushing and unjustified comments?

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Dear Professor Field

GPs arriving at work on a typically crushingly busy Monday may have noticed your comments printed in that day’s Daily Mail – headlined “GPs have failed as a profession”, and where you said that you were “ashamed to be a GP”.