Yeah same here. Mixture of finding the whole damn setup too depressing
for words and keeping myself sane until I finish this locum.
Doing locum for a friend, average three days a week this month while he
is off on hols. 8.30 or 9 until around 7 or later, usually eat a
sandwich at the computer with a pile of letters, microbiology reports
(not on lab links yet). Resolved this time round that I would not stay
later than 8, that I would not come home to eat and go back in, that I
would not go in at weekends. Referrals and such are running about two
weeks behind and I am not terribly bothered by it because if necessary
I'll be cutting surgery sessions short next week to catch up before I
finish at end of August.
This goddamm slog is wearing me out and I am not doing it again. The
contrast with Canada is stark and I plan to go back over there for two
short locums between now and Xmas.
Declan
<<Just too depressed :-(
I read this yesterday evening, having started work at 8.20am and
finished at 6.45 with 5 mins to eat my sandwich at lunch. I then sat
down in the evening to a load of work related emails etc.
They will never learn.
Cheers Geoff
On 8/21/07, Paul Bromley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Obviously no-one interested.
>>
>>
>> Best Wishes
>>
>> Paul Bromley
>>
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>> On 20/08/07, Paul Bromley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2289417.ece
>>> >
>>> > Makes for further depressing reading in the press. How come it was
>>> > agreed in the last new contract that we could opt out of the archaic
>>> > hours we used to work and just a couple of years later we are
about to
>>> > be forced out of general practice if we do not take it on again?
>>> >
>>> > Following the debacle of what happened when GPs were not involved
with
>>> > running and manning OOH when will they learn that this will well and
>>> > truly destroy primary care. No doubt too late. I see a mass exodus
>>> > from being a GP principal. Will we go out with a fight or a whimper -
>>> > I suspect the latter from past experience!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Best Wishes
>>> >
>>> > Paul Bromley
>>> >
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