TY - JOUR T1 - So, doctor, was I worth £10? JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 351 LP - 352 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2014-203611 VL - 31 IS - 4 AU - Lauren Waterman Y1 - 2014/04/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/31/4/351.2.abstract N2 - Dear Editor I write this letter in response to the recent survey which showed a third of general practitioners to support patient fees for ‘unnecessary’ Accident & Emergency (A&E) visits.1 The idea is that patients would be charged £5–£10 and this is refunded if doctors deemed the visit appropriate. I propose three key reasons why this charge would be impractical, unethical and dangerous.First, A&E doctors would have to get into … ER -