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Very good summary of a highly motivated, appropriately staffed and competent team struggling to cope.
The next step for these individuals and teams are complaints because when you’re working like this the chances of making the wrong call are so high. The individualised, non-contextualised complaint system leads to cynicism and neurosis which further impairs the ability of such clinicians to at least try to cope.
What is the answer? A national debate about health and illness. So much of what we see is vague, idiopathic and unfathomable. Such problems are highly time consuming to work out and reassure both patient and doctor.
And the explosion of “mental health” issues is a huge issue. Either we are imploding as a society or we are now diagnosing the general crappiness of the human condition as disease needing fixed and the understanding of that crappiness is being offloaded onto services which cannot fix what is reality.
We need to employ King Canute as NHS chief executive. His efforts at the seaside were designed to show his courtiers that he was powerless in the face of the tides.
Re: GPs left in unsustainable position by “brutal” number of requests
Dear Editor
Very good summary of a highly motivated, appropriately staffed and competent team struggling to cope.
The next step for these individuals and teams are complaints because when you’re working like this the chances of making the wrong call are so high. The individualised, non-contextualised complaint system leads to cynicism and neurosis which further impairs the ability of such clinicians to at least try to cope.
What is the answer? A national debate about health and illness. So much of what we see is vague, idiopathic and unfathomable. Such problems are highly time consuming to work out and reassure both patient and doctor.
And the explosion of “mental health” issues is a huge issue. Either we are imploding as a society or we are now diagnosing the general crappiness of the human condition as disease needing fixed and the understanding of that crappiness is being offloaded onto services which cannot fix what is reality.
We need to employ King Canute as NHS chief executive. His efforts at the seaside were designed to show his courtiers that he was powerless in the face of the tides.
Competing interests: No competing interests