www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/14/gp-cash-incentive-linked-to-fall-in-uk-abortion-rates-study-finds
My experience with GP healthcare is that I sense that many GPs, wishing to keep to their tight 10 min slots, seems to want to prescribe contraceptives for anything and everything. Sometimes I feel like they view the female body as something abhorrent in it's pesky complexity, it's cyclical nature, so it's simpler (for them), to just prescribes contraceptives.
Now that I've seen they apparently had cash incentives to do so, how can we ever know how many GPs recommended these, allowing the cash incentives cloud their judgement instead of focusing on what was right for the woman? How many cases could there have been where there was option a) b) or c), but only option b) was mentioned or encouraged?
Some might say 'but was the cash incentive ever really big enough to make a difference?'. I would say yes, hence why they offered it in the first place to individuals who are already well paid compared to the general population.
I'm not against contraceptives, but I am against lazy healthcare who treat women's bodies are troublesome.
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EarthSight · 14/09/2020 22:29
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