In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] writes
>Interesting article in this weeks BMJ about GP career structure.It asks why
>general practice accepts such an inferior career structure in comparison with
>other specialities. Why do we????
It's different but I don't think its inferior the the feudal hospital
structure.
Possibly those times are long past but the reason I decided against
hospital medicine was the victorian attitudes, the paternalism, the
unwarranted self aggrandisement and superiority and the general air of
institutionalism in the hospitals.
I didn't like half the people I was expected to cultivate and was fed up
being treated as a doormat. So I entered GP and was treated as a doormat
by a whole different class of people. ;-)
Realistically I feel its only the recent acknowledgement of GP as a
specialty in its own right that leads us to question our career
structure. One can only hope that it develops in a different way to that
of hospital medicine and more in tune with modern concepts of individual
worth.
Regards
George
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