"Doctors' wellbeing? Are you kidding? I don't so much `maintain' my own wellbeing as continually
firefight from one crisis to the next." Adrian Fogarty, a cardiac consultant from London, is pessimistic
about how doctors maintain their wellbeing. He continues: "When our specialty recently questioned
consultants about stress, it missed the very people it was attempting to capture. We were too
stressed to find time to fill the damn form out."
Rule 1. Expect journalists to report what you say if you said it.
Rule 2. Never take part then whinge. If you don't like the way you are going to be portrayed then you
must say so before it hits print. A later letter simply makes things worse.
If you did not say what is reported then that is a different matter. It is quite clear that you did not ask
for the right to check and veto what they said as there is an elementary error in the fourth sentence.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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