Cardiologist Dr John Dean says overlap of private and public healthcare results in ‘the greedy preying on the needy’ and deprives NHS of much-needed doctors
NHS doctors should be banned from also working in private medicine because it damages the health service and involves “the greedy preying on the needy”, claims a heart specialist who has given up working in an industry he calls a “con”.
Dr John Dean, a consultant cardiologist in Exeter, says NHS doctors who supplement their income by seeing patients privately end up compromising their ethics because they have a financial incentive to recommend treatment that may not be necessary.
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