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Yeah same here. Mixture of finding the whole damn setup too depressing for words and keeping myself sane until I finish this locum. Doing locum for a friend, average three days a week this month while he is off on hols. 8.30 or 9 until around 7 or later, usually eat a sandwich at the computer with a pile of letters, microbiology reports (not on lab links yet). Resolved this time round that I would not stay later than 8, that I would not come home to eat and go back in, that I would not go in at weekends. Referrals and such are running about two weeks behind and I am not terribly bothered by it because if necessary I'll be cutting surgery sessions short next week to catch up before I finish at end of August. This goddamm slog is wearing me out and I am not doing it again. The contrast with Canada is stark and I plan to go back over there for two short locums between now and Xmas. Declan <<Just too depressed :-( I read this yesterday evening, having started work at 8.20am and finished at 6.45 with 5 mins to eat my sandwich at lunch. I then sat down in the evening to a load of work related emails etc. They will never learn. Cheers Geoff On 8/21/07, Paul Bromley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Obviously no-one interested. >> >> >> Best Wishes >> >> Paul Bromley >> >> www.informatiks.com >> Custom EMIS LV Software. >> vuE | GPLabels | GPDocs | eGFRChecker >> >> >> On 20/08/07, Paul Bromley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2289417.ece >>> > >>> > Makes for further depressing reading in the press. How come it was >>> > agreed in the last new contract that we could opt out of the archaic >>> > hours we used to work and just a couple of years later we are about to >>> > be forced out of general practice if we do not take it on again? >>> > >>> > Following the debacle of what happened when GPs were not involved with >>> > running and manning OOH when will they learn that this will well and >>> > truly destroy primary care. No doubt too late. I see a mass exodus >>> > from being a GP principal. Will we go out with a fight or a whimper - >>> > I suspect the latter from past experience! >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Best Wishes >>> > >>> > Paul Bromley >>> >