Why Everything You Think About GPs Is Wrong

📩 Sign up to my newsletter for an in-depth post with every video: https://katherine-leung.com 🔗 My sources, extra notes, and thoughts for this video: https://katherine-leung.kit.com/posts... GPs are now delivering 6 million more appointments a month than they were in 2019 — with almost exactly the same number of doctors. And yet the story many people tell about general practice is one of empty waiting rooms, three-day weeks, and doctors who couldn't hack a "real" specialty. If you've heard some version of these — from a friend, a headline, or a comment section — this one's for you. I'm a GP, and I'm going to take on six of the myths I hear most often, and show you what's actually going on underneath each one. I walk through: 🩺 Why "coughs and colds" is real medicine — the skill of spotting the needle in the haystack 🎓 Why GP is its own specialty — a decade of training, not a failed doctor 🧊 The empty waiting room — and the work you can't see beneath it ⏱️ Why GPs run late — 10-minute slots against a safe limit of 25 patients a day 💷 The "part-time and lazy" myth — what a GP "session" actually involves, and why they're not two-day weeks 🌱 Why "watch and wait" is a clinical plan — not the absence of one This video is for patients who've wondered what their GP is actually doing all day, for medical students and junior doctors weighing up general practice as a career, and for anyone who wants to understand how the front door of the NHS really works. 📚 Full list of sources and further reading in the newsletter linked at the top. ⏳ Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:31 - It's Just Coughs and Colds 01:50 - Failed Doctors Who Couldn't Specialise 04:11 - Empty Waiting Room Means They're Doing Nothing 06:03 - Running Late Means They Don't Care 07:29 - Part-Time and Lazy 10:57 - They Just Say Take Paracetamol and Come Back 🎶 Music by: Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by cold winter breeze - cold streaks - https://thmatc.co/?l=C064921A Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by Naomi - Clouds - https://thmatc.co/?l=A851B224