Would anyone care to nominate the GP (themself or others) with the hardest
workload and longest hours?
Michael Durham
Health Correspondent
The Observer
London
>On 03/10/98 10:27:23, "Ruth Livingstone" <[log in to unmask]>
>wro
>>Some of us have been quite successful at reducing workload, and improving our
>>quality of life.
>>Ahmad, myself, and Rob Johnson, have all achieved some measure of control, in
>>different ways.
>
>The most stupid thing we do is that we set ourselves standatds that are
>impossible to achieve. I don't mean standards of 'clinical care' here.
>
>I managed to reduce my work load by doing the following:
>
>1. Learnt to say no
>2. Moved to appointments only (14 per 2 hrs sesh)
>3. Abolished Saturday surgery
>4. Paid Healthcall 500 quid a month to do *all* my on-call
>5. Developed zero-tolerance for patients who messed me about
>6. Chucked few trouble makers off the list, everybody knew about it
> and suddenly everybody started to tow the line
>7. Made myself available by phone
>8. Stopped the nonsense of routine home visiting at the drop of a hat
>9. Most importantly, I began to question what it was all about, my
> quality of life and the effect my work load was having on my love
> and devotion to my family
>
>You can lower your standards without lowering your standards (if yoy see
>what I mean) :-)
>
>Ahmad
>
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