Ahmad wrote <<To be dragged and forced into such a liaison is nothing short
of rape.
I'll just have to do what many people do when they are forced into a
relationship they don't want. Close eyes and grin and bear until ....?>>
Confucius he say---When girl about to raped by man stronger than she,
advice to lay back and enjoy it.
I agree with you Ahmad----but if you end up with no choice but to go in
then lay back, do the job and let the enthusiastic others do the work, take
the flak etc. I'm sorry Missus but I can't refer you to Reigate General no
more, the PCG says no. Who's in charge of them? Oh here's his phone
number.....
I'm sorry if anyone finds this offensive but have we not learned from the
last eight years that we HAVE to pull together; charging off lemming like
into whatever new arrangement the government of the day thinks will work is
NOT the way to make GP work. Labour mean well and care a lot more than the
other lot but they are still learning and they want the second term so
badly you can smell it so they won't go for any serious cash injection and
they will be very slow to trust the future of the NHS to the finely tuned
professional concsience of Drs Risk, Fox, Midgley, Hotch and all the rest
of us.
Pulling GPs into groups they don't want is pointless because unless the
thing really flies (unlikely, given the lack of real clout in the PCG
arrangements) then the refuseniks will find it intolerable to contribute,
intolerable to stick in for long and it will be a toss up whether the
group says GO or he/she takes whatever action is necessary to get out. Has
anyone had a legal opinion on this business?
<<I say it once more: please leave me alone and let me get on with the
job that I am equipped and trained to do. That is practising medicine.
Is that too much to ask?>>
Afraid so! Has been for years now but those of us who just wanted to be
doctors managed somehow to keep at it---for example I ignored annual
reports, practice leaflets, three-yearly checks, over-75 checks without any
great problems. My partner and the manager looked after most of that
while the HV and DN did the rest----fair deal I thought since I was doing
the bulk of the elderly care and the terminal care and the chronics.
There is considerable irony in that if I could put my finger on it.
I think it is getting to shit or bust time----if you want to give superb
patient care then the NHS is not the way to do it. There are times like
these when I envy my friends down south (Ireland, not London!) who at least
had 60% of the population to give private care to. Find new housing
estate, buy house, hang up plate and wait. I never heard of anyone
starving or going bankrupt on that.
Enough ranting for one day.
Good luck Ahmad
Declan
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