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i'd be interested where the figure of 11- 15 came from? there are 168 hours in a week ( 24 *7) say people are contacted for 37.5 hours 168/37.5 = 4.48 WTE to cover a week, but that doesn't allow for sickness, holidays, study leave, other commitments such as lecturing etc. Martyn Date sent: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:46:46 +0100 Subject: RE: The Future From: "Dunn Matthew Dr. ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY - SwarkHosp-TR" <[log in to unmask]> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Send reply to: [log in to unmask] > Agreed. A and E is not good for making money or working soft hours. > It's first and foremost a fun specialty. Only worry is about > consultant being physically present. Probably not needed (I tend to > get in from home before the residents in other specialties arrive). If > the consultant is physically up and working, it means seeing a lot of > minor/ self limiting conditions (not a problem in itself, but if I > wanted to do it full time, I'd have gone into general practice, spent > less time in training, made more money and not done nights on call). > Also, there are only so many sick patients- to have enough consultants > to make this sort of shift work possible (correct me if I'm wrong, > didn't someone work out that this needs 11 - 15 consultant per > department) would dilute the experience for each one... unless really > went down the Emergency Physician route (my own choice). But yes, lets > pull forwards as a specialty. We should be the best able to assess and > resuscitate critically ill patients. If we lack technical skills to do > so (RSI, ultrasound, etc), then lets bring these skills into the > specialty rather than shifting the patients out. Above all, lets keep > the fun parts within our specialty. > > Matt Dunn -- Martyn Hodson, Adv. Dip. Nursing Studies Student Sheffield Uni BAEMT-FR, VAS First Responder, AED Operator [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask] urgent messages to [log in to unmask] Listowner of [log in to unmask] http://usit.shef.ac.uk/~nra98mph/ writing for myself not the uni. or any other organisation %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%