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Environment & Energy

OnlinePoker

(5,719 posts) Fri Apr 6, 2012, 06:20 PM Apr 2012

British senior ordered to change doctor because of carbon footprint

Absolutely pathetic. I'd really like to know if they've done it for all their patients, or as the woman suspects, they're using GW as a convenient excuse to dump a patient who has caused trouble.

"Surgery bans elderly patient over her carbon footprint
An elderly woman was ordered to find a new GP because the “carbon footprint” of her two-mile round trips to the surgery where she had been treated for 30 years was too large..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9184693/Surgery-bans-elderly-patient-over-her-carbon-footprint.html