George wrote
<<You may be a doctor but the NHS bit is a job as well. If you're going to
put in extra time, extra commitment and extra energy you will be subject
to the same stresses and needs as anybody else, be it politician or
dustman, and respond to the same rewards. The extent of people's needs
will vary, however, and it seems that more and more are being unmet. If
the medical part of the NHS is to continue then those needs should be
met for the doctors and nurses involved or they will take their skills
elsewhere, and the part of the NHS dependant upon them may very well
collapse, which I feel would be a tragedy - yet so easily resolved.>>
And some more good stuff.
Right again George--as usual!
The biggest problem I see is when the "system" actually makes the job of
tending to the sick more difficult; when the NHS structure becomes a
major impediment to us providing what we are supposed to provide under our
T and C of service. Contradictory, non? Maddening and frustrating?
Ultimately enough to drive us away. I am reminded this minute of RD
Laing's work on the schizophrenigenic family---families driving people mad.
I think the NHS drives clinical staff mad.
Declan
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