First of three programmes Can You Afford the Doctor?
Life before the NHS. Patients, nurses and doctors vividly recall conditions in the 20s and 30s when a visit to the doctor was prohibitively expensive, hospital conditions were often appalling and people dreaded falling ill.
- 'Much surgery was done on the kitchen table, quite frankly.'
- 'If people needed glasses, they went to Woolworths.' - 'If you were poor and old and ill, you would say "God bless you", as they did in times of plague, because you were not long for this world.' That was before 1948 ... Film editor DON FAIRSERVICE Executive producer
SIMON CAMPBELL JONES Written and produced by MICHAEL BARNES
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