REGARDING Darwen GP Dr John Bidwell taking early retirement and complaining that from 1990 messing about by successive governments has made the job difficult to do (LET, October 1), this prompted me to think back to when I was a lad.
Becoming ill, I was taken to Belgrave Square to wait in the very large waiting room taking our turn to see Doctor Lavery.
The benches were leather covered and when a person was called to go in the surgery everyone had to shuffle into the next seat until eventually their turn came.
But if you were too ill to get to the surgery the doctor would see you on his rounds in the afternoon before holding a night surgery.
If you were ill during the night, it was your own doctor who came out to see you, being, to my knowledge, available 24 hours a day seven days a week.
ROY DAVIES, Olive Lane, Darwen.
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