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Fed up with forms

BMJ 2014; 348 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2519 (Published 02 April 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g2519

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Re: Fed up with forms

I totally agree that we need to listen to our patients and to each other - i.e. other doctors - to experience the joy in medicine.

Don't you think that we also need to listen to other professionals interested in health and well being and follow the wise words of Theodore Zeldin in How work can be made less frustrating and conversation less boring with the editorial by Clever on the frustrations of relationships www.bmj.com/content/319/7225/1633

I believe that in the past 30 years our lack of interest and our inability as GPs to share conversation and ideas with librarians, play workers, community development workers, poets and artists has led to our "silo" mentality.

To a certain extent we only have ourselves to blame for the sad state that you have so clearly identified.

Best wishes

Malcolm

Dr Malcolm Rigler FRSPH
Health Ambassador at: www.patients-association.com

Competing interests: No competing interests

14 April 2014
Malcolm S. Rigler
GP
The Patients Association
Bracken House Hereford