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A day in the life of a doctor
The team building day
BMJ 2006; 333 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38993.674282.BE (Published 21 December 2006) Cite this as: BMJ 2006;333:1332
- David Isaacs, senior staff specialist, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia (davidi@chw.edu.au),
- Stephen Isaacs, consultant, Waltham Forest Child and Family Consultation Service, London,
- Dominic Fitzgerald, senior staff specialist, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital at Westmead
“The main purpose of a team building day is to build a team,” the Facilitator begins smugly. A team building day is a cliché building day. The Facilitator can cram more clichés per square sentence and mix more metaphors than George W Bush. The Facilitator has a capital F, and the self satisfaction of believing that the profundity of his or her insight knows no depths. The word Facilitator has the same derivation as the word facile.
“A problem …