(08-25-2020, 02:24 PM)strawman Wrote: Doctors and consultants are no longer seeing patients face to face, or certainly mine aren't, and from what I have been told they seem happy that this will last for a long while, maybe even a permanent arrangement. Not only are people having their treatment delayed for existing conditions, but I suspect the lack of face to face assessment will delay the diagnosis of new fatal conditions. In the long term this will be far more catastrophic.
This is absolutely true.
Private Healthcare (generous cover) on a Moratorium basis costs my family of four £102 per month. It's a drop in the ocean to have the comfort of being able to see a specilaist in person at the drop of a hat.
(08-25-2020, 02:25 PM)baggy1 Wrote: Surely that is market driven and not anything else. What fields are they in? And just because they can't sit together, does that mean they can't operate?
Legal Services, Construction Consultancies, Actuaries, Patent Attorneys and the like. They can operate to some extent WFH, but the knock on effects for the legions of young workers who don't have the benefit of a garden room or attic conversion to use as an office look disastrous to me.