"Most of the people who come to see me with problems in my surgeries don't vote".
In theory, practice makes perfect, because people who do the same cataract surgeries more frequently will become better at it, but the only way to ensure this is the case is to measure complication and error rates.
Iran permits more sex-change operations than any other country, except Thailand, and has long subsidised such surgeries.
Farron is understood to have written to the commission complaining that the newspaper embarked on a "fishing expedition" in which there was no justification for secretly recording MPs at their constituency surgeries.
A total of 20,464 planned surgeries were cancelled at the last minute for non-clinical reasons in January, February and March in England.
It is a similar story for GP surgeries.
Nonetheless, there were some strong moments for Clegg, as when he described people weeping in his surgeries after being told they had to give back mistakenly overpaid tax credits, and he finished strongly on education.
At a time when we are having to face the challenges of an ageing society, it places a significant unjustified burden on our GP surgeries and hospitals and may well impact on the standard of care received by UK citizens.
SalaUno clinic in Mexico is a specialist centre of clinical excellence which offers sight-restoring cataract surgeries and other eye treatments at a third of the price other Mexican private clinics, and less than a third of that in the NHS, while delivering the same levels of quality.
Increasingly, people see different doctors every time they visit the hospital or their GP surgeries and it can be hard to know how much you trust the person you see.
That is why more GPs are being trained, and surgeries are staying open later.
