"IF, I'm not valued then I won't value"
I think it's important to realise that the most important positive feedback
that you will ever get is from your patients. It's certainly what keeps me
going. If patients sense that you don't value them then they won't
necessarily value you as a doctor. They are more likely to forgive a mistake
(which we all make) if we have shown some care and compassion in dealing
with them. Also patients don't like being referred to as punters.
Turning to Stress this seems to be reaching a mini epidemic in the NHS and
it's not just effecting doctors. The pace of change can sometimes give the
illusion of progress. Education and Health do suffer from the ever changing
agendas of politicans. So once the Election is over and we have yet another
Health Minister he or she will want to make their mark and we'll have more
new initiatives!
To keep sane in the NHS perhaps we all have to value our fellow workers.
When's the last time that you bought a box of chocolates for the Medical
Personnel Dept? We all need to feel valued.
Just to show that things have not changed over the ages... see below.
"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to
form up into teams, we would be reorganised, I was to learn later in life
that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising and a wonderful
method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing
confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
Gaius Petronius (A.D. 66)
Footnote
Gaius Petronius subsequently committed suicide when it all got too much for
him!
Petronius wrote the first Roman novel, the Satyricon. Only sections of the
novel exist today. The work traces the adventures of three Romans as they
travel in Italy. Through a mixture of prose and poetry, Petronius portrayed
conditions of real life under the Roman emperor Nero. He described a
society filled with dishonesty, insincerity, and vice. Nearly one-third of
the surviving novel deals with a rich but uneducated man called Trimalchio
and a lavish dinner party he gave. During the dinner, Trimalchio attempts
to impress his guests with what he thinks is good taste. But the host's
showiness and vulgarity expose his cultural inferiority to his
intellectually superior guests. Scholars believe Petronius wrote the novel
to ridicule Roman society under Nero. He committed suicide leisurely by
cutting his wrists, whilst dictating a letter to Nero detailing how
despicable his regime was!
----- Original Message -----
From: "iain jamieson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Chaos in A & E
> As to your other thoughts on sickness rates...I think
> we may well be seeing the results of destroying the
> goodwill of the medical proffession.
> IE, I'm not valued then I won't value, and, if I feel
> ill, other people take the day off and don't push
> themselves, therefore, so will I.
> Stands to reason no?
> Iain
>
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