On 29/08/2007, Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > As Ian Banks put it a long time ago, GP is great if you don't do too > much of it. He meant that to be taken at face value, ie that you should > have a very satisfying time so long as you worked part-time. > Dr M Lakhani is, almost certainly, part-time. You have hit the proverbial upon the head once again, dear boy. Much the same story in France where most GPs are full-time and, so my contacts tell me, are suffering from "le burn-out" and increasingly being sued by a dissatisfied public. I think we can all agree that it's a great time to be a professor in general practice. Mike -- Michael Leuty Nottingham, UK