<< Declan Fox wrote:
> Me? I haven't written a script, sat in a surgery or done on-call for over
a
> year. Changes your perspective that does---which is probably why so few
> who take a year's sabbatical ever go back to full-time GP, something
like
> 10% I think. Shows you there is life beyond the NHS.
So what are you doing and how did you get the time off?>>
Sitting comfortably? Good!
I got sick is how. I got a severe bout of depression, went off rather
acutely on 22nd June last year and shall remain off until end of this year.
After that? Who knows? Well I am trying to find out!
I had to supply a locum most of the time and I spent some savings on that.
In retrospect, it would have been considerably more sensible to use same
savings to buy me substantial time out or even finance a sabbatical---there
basically isn't any money for sabbaticals in this out post of the empire
although there are research grants for part-time stuff. It wasn't
research which I wanted to do ---I wanted to get stuck into publishing,
writing, teaching, media work and such. Had I done that two or three
years ago I might have avoided the worst of the depression tho due to other
circumstances which would have arisen anyway I would have suffered it to
some degree.
Now I am looking seriously at teaching, writing and publishing while
considering part-time GP next year.
Declan
PS No reasonable offer refused so long as it pays and is middling
interesting. Oh yes and doesn't involve direct patient contact.
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