In message <[log in to unmask]>, Phil Dunlap
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>> >It is accepted by many that GPs do tend to get bored (for want of a better
>word) after 7-10 years<
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>> With you there Declan. There is a major tension between the phenomenal
>> depth of knowledge and intuitive feel for illness in your patients by
>> hanging around say 30 years, and the surreal dread of driving down the same
>street for the eighteen thousandth time! If my life flashed by in a near death
>thing it would in the main be different views of 6 grey council houses near a
>painted roundabout overlooking Courtaulds chemical plant. I may have gazed at
>those for longer than at my kids! What's it all for? Pass the Sartre...
>> Dave Y.
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>
>Very much agreed here. I have the belief that once one has been faced
>with every orifice of every individual in town at least ten times, it is
>perhaps time to move on...
Possibly - but I like the *longitudinal* , as it were, aspects of
general practice: the treating of patients, not just ilneses, and the
way you see the effects across two or three generations.
*I* was facing burnout - until a Read Code conversion opened a whole new
world of frustrations for me! ;->>
Just because you're still in the same practice in the same place, it
doesn't mean that nothing has changed.. think of 1990 *and* the WP!
Mary
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