§ 12. Sir J. D. REESasked under what obligation a doctor on a panel lies to accept as a non-paying patient a person who chooses him as his or her medical adviser; and what redress has a person who, having chosen a particular doctor, is rejected by such doctor, or perhaps by a succession of doctors chosen by him or her?
§ Mr. MASTERMANOne of the advantages enjoyed by a doctor who accepts insured persons on his list is that none of them are non-paying patients, and no obligation rests on any doctor on the panel to accept a non-paying patient. The Regulations provide for the distribution among the doctors on the panel of any insured persons who have been refused by the doctor whom they have selected, and so far as is practicable under arrangements made by the doctors on the panel.