A 97-year-old speaker at a health meeting said she could 'cure the woes of the NHS in a stroke'.
Susan Palmer, a retired GP from Dereham, spoke at the Norfolk and Norwich Liver Group on July 2.
Miss Palmer, who gave an account of her life as a GP from 1954 to 1981, said NHS woes could be remedied by requiring doctors to work longer hours.
She said she remembered times when she worked 168 hours in a week.
At the meeting Miss Palmer described putting up a sign nine months before Christmas which said she did not want to spend her Christmas delivering babies.
On other occasions Miss Palmer left a basket of her own apples in the waiting room under a sign reading: 'An apple a day keeps the patients at bay'.
Group chairman Bill Dingle said: 'Dr Susan certainly never wanted to keep patients at bay.
'She was a lovely caring dedicated Doctor.'
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