<<Patients calling me direct at times as CoOp presumably swamped.
Its a demand and supply problem. We reduce the latter and fail to
(or can't) address the former. We'll need to be a bit smarter next
year to cope with the "Millenium holidays". Given that the co-payment
argument is a non-starter, might a high profile public education
programme be helpful? Or will we simply have to open over the hols?>>
Far be it from me to suggest such a terrible ploy but I thought you might
like to hear about the Irish "blue flu" which afflicted the Gardai (police)
a while back. Seems they were looking for a pay review and were a bit fed
up with successive governments screwing them, taking advantage of their "no
strike" ethos. So someone hatched the idea that on a given day every garda
below a certain rank would call in sick. Seniors turned up to handle
emergencies while the majority of ORs got flu. Last I heard, they had got
what they wanted.
Of course, doctors would never do anything like that, regardless of how
many 100% harder they were expected to work over the millennium holiday. Of
course not.....
Declan
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