In article <[log in to unmask]>, Declan Fox
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><<Patients calling me direct at times as CoOp presumably swamped.
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>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?>>
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>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.....
Does being ill - even in hospital! - remove your 24 hr responsibility
for providing care for your patients under TOS?
Anyone see the snippet saying GPs are going to be drafted to work in
Casualty? or was it another nightmare?
Would it require primary legislation? ;-<
Mary
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