Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Here I am

Jobbing Doctor at the end of the day....


So here I am, a doctor of a certain age, having spent another 12 hour shift at my practice. I was able to stop for a 20 minute lunch and that is all.

I am working harder and harder just to deliver as good care as I can for my patients, who are generally very appreciative.

All I read in the Papers is about GPs coining it in, and playing Golf.

Maybe some people would like to spend a day with me doing what I do. Its not easy.

Zzzzzzzz.

6 comments:

Jenny Woolf said...

That's not good but you don't say why things have changed to makeit so hard to have breaks? Can the practice take another doctor on to share the load?

JimMary said...

Our GPwork p/t. 2 men 3 days , 5 female 2 days each

Anonymous said...

My GP seems to be more and more overloaded despite taking on more staff, not least because he and his colleagues are weighed down by having to ask lots of questions to satisfy bureaucrats.

Mind you, the money's there. Four out of the ten highest paid people in the whole of the NHS are GPs in my local (very deprived) PCT area with the highest paid on over four hundred thousand pounds a year. For that, I don't feel guilty about local GPs putting in long hours. I am, however, aware that the average GP earns a hell of a lot less than that.

Anonymous said...

Yes, indeed, I'm sure your are doing this JD. Because you are a good guy. Makes me weep, really, because I have a GP like you. Have you read Animal Farm? You are "Boxer". And you will still be singing the praises of that Tory shitbag Gerada MBE as she wheels you into the glue factory. You just don't get it, do you, you poor man.

Jobbing Doctor said...

I love being patronised with Orwellian Metaphors. I shall go next year with my hard-earned and not over generous pension, retiring at an age when 30 years ago, Doctors had 10-15 years more service in them.

The damage to the profession by its leaders over the last 10 years has been terrible to behold. Ad hominem attacks on Dr Gerada are a little wide of the mark when the real culprits are the likes of Drs Darzi and Donaldson.

Anonymous said...

Dear, sweet Boxer. Gerada is the spawn of Darzi.

"She is the biggest provider of general practice in London, she employs about 100 salaried doctors, provides fantastic care and has won more Darzi contracts in competition than anyone else. "

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/13134977/field-nhs-has-lost-the-plot-on-primary-care