A general practitioner colleague told me that his child was in hospital for five days, albeit not very ill, and not once did the consultant see the child. He did not bother doing anything about it because the child was well catered for by the registrars on duty. There will be incidences like that, so it is not just public patients who are left to one side. I do realise that, as in all professions, there are some people who do not pull their weight, but the vast majority are doing a great deal.