Back to the future: Dr Jon Fogarty on the realities of life as a GP in 1984
Doctor-shopping, Dancing in the Dark and a part-time practice partner?
You want to know what it was like as a GP in the year Australian Doctor was first published? As someone who was there, I’ll take you back.
It’s 1984, and life is good but busy.
In my house, the clock is striking 6am (not 13), and predictably, the bedside phone rings with Mrs K asking me to call in on the way to the surgery.
She has another migraine. Could I give her “a needle”? It’s the only thing that works, she says.
