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A very different world ... for patients and doctors

David Hamilton We take it for granted now that we need not to have bills for routine medical treatment. We assume that health care is available to all.

David Hamilton

We take it for granted now that we need not to have bills for routine medical treatment. We assume that health care is available to all.

It was not always thus. Before the NHS in 1948, things were different.