Crippen is on shakey ground being so critical of other healthcare workers. Unfortunately we all know or have met someone who has had to deal with an arrogant and/or lazy GP. I lost a lot of respect for GPs after what happened to my grandmother: Apparently she had been generally unwell for quite a while - Nausea, Constipation, lack of appetite, vomiting etc. Each time she saw her GP she was fobbed off with various pills for nausia, or whatever system which never did anything to help. She was of the generation that would never question her doctor's advice so she did just do as he said. The last time I saw her she looked very frail, and the family were very concerned. It took the intervention of several family members accompanying my Grandmother and refusing to leave the doctor's consulting room until he referred her to Hospital, to get her GP to do something. Upon being seen at hospital she was rushed into surgery in pretty stort order for the removal of a tumor. Unfortunately by this time the tumor was too large and widespread to save her. She died 3 days later.