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The Jobbing Doctor
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The Jobbing Doctor is a GP working in a large industrialised conurbation outside of London. He is now blogging regularly as it is good for his blood pressure.
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Doing Blokey Things

As retirement begins to beckon with her siren voice of slobbing around in Jeans, and spending all day curled up with a book, I need to start to develop certain areas of my life.There are some things ...

3 days ago

I try

A league table   I try to keep away from politics and healthcare, really I do.I like to just get on with my job and ignore political "initiatives".  But they keep coming, and o...

22 may 12

Scary name

Some conditions have scary names. I suppose if people knew that Pernicious anaemia actually meant fatal anaemia, then they might be more scared.Necrotising fasciitis, is caused by the so called "...

21 may 12

Preparing for another life

Berthe Morisot (Manet)I have seen too many colleagues who have not prepared themselves well for retirement, as well as some who have done it well.I am planning my own retirement (you have to when you...

17 may 12

At last

I have been desperately seeking poison.With todays uber-regulated society, it is quite difficult to get my preferred poison.I have finally managed to get some from a retiring single-handed doctor. I ...

14 may 12

Things I like doing

The are certain procedures in medicine that I like doing.I did one today and had a very satisfied patient.If you have ever been plagued with ear wax, you will know what a nuisance it is - having to a...

14 may 12

He wont go away....

I see that the Secretary of State for Health has continued to be busy.I rather hoped that Mr Andrew Lansley MP, privatisation zealot, and receiver of money for his private office from private health ...

13 may 12

Preposterous

Yesterday, I had little opportunity to watch the state opening of Parliament.However, all the old rituals were there - the state coach, the deference and flummery, Black Rod summoning the commons to ...

10 may 12

Me and my smart card.......

I have an NHS Smartcard. To be honest I look like a mugshot from Crimewatch, but it apparently serves a purpose. It tells me of the delights of "Choose and Book" (which has, to be honest, del...

08 may 12

Doctors and funerals

Today I went to one of my patients funerals. The family told me when it was, so I regarded that as a good enough reason to try to go. The clinical details are unimportant, except that the patient was...

03 may 12

The GMC, Doctors,a report and the media.

  Big round filing cabinet on the floor  The usual doctor-bashing has re-emerged, thanks to the GMC. The General Medical Council is the organisation that regulates doctors and consists of p...

02 may 12

Bad news

This has been a bad bad week.My work as a family doctor is different from many working in hospitals. I know people before they were ill. I have seen them through happy smiling times, celebrations and...

28 apr 12

Things on my desk....

Occasionally, my patients die. Actually, they only die once, but it occasionally happens to people I know.This is a great sadness for me, although many of my patients have died after a good life, wel...

24 apr 12

Seen on a forum near here

Mrs Malaprop in Sheridans "The Rivals"   On a discharge summary from hospital....Gill and Barry syndrome.I actually have a married couple on my books who are called Gill and Barry!I...

23 apr 12

More break-up

The way the market works is by competitors being able to offer differing products, at different prices. At the moment, the religion of the market is all pervasive, and we are all supposed to worship ...

22 apr 12

Branding

The NHS Logo (TM)Around 4 or 5 years ago (I think), I noticed that the various local hospitals and mental health trusts had a redesign of their headed notepaper.This is entirely unsurprising in the h...

17 apr 12

You couldnt make it up.......

  "Didnt expect him to die today..."Our new super-regulator is called the Care Quality Commission. They have been tasked with the role of regulating tens of thousands of GP Surgeries, an...

16 apr 12

I could get very rich

My car?   Having a medical degree is a passport to a comfortably affluent lifestyle. I know. I have one.I sometimes feel a little guilty that I have good earning potential, and have come a ...

16 apr 12

I make people ill

My patients go into hospital. They generally go in for a good reason, and often come out of hospital on medication.Lots of it.This is 21st Century Medicine, where each diagnosis has its own concoctio...

14 apr 12

Can commissioning of healthcare work?

General Practitioners are the last of the generalists. We are doctors who can deal with whatever walks through our doors. Acute depression, psoriasis, gynaecological bleeding, diabetes mellitus, fail...

12 apr 12

Can they be trusted?

Just been talking to someone who has had to visit the dentist. Toothache was swiftly followed by the headache of a huge bill. Needs root canal work, and a crown. Cost > £800.What has happened to d...

11 apr 12

Doctors as patients

Pityriasis Rosea   Some of the more challenging patients down the years have been doctors and nurses. I have to say that they can be a little reluctant to take advice, and their attitude to...

10 apr 12

Spring again

Damson blossomThe weather is closing in here in Dullsville, and that matched my rather bleak mood when contemplating what is being done to public services all around the country.The Carpet Baggers ha...

31 mar 12

Getting fuel

Francis Maude, MinisterYesterday my car started to indicate that I was low on fuel. Normally I would go to the Petrol Station and fill up. There is ample opportunity as a Jobbing Doctor as we are aro...

31 mar 12

A plague on all your houses

MP for Bradford NorthJobbing Doctor is a casual observer of the political process. The general merry-go-round of politics continues from year to year with the main parties getting in power, people ex...

30 mar 12

La Reine Le Veult

"La Reine Le Veult."One phrase, uttered by a functionary in the Houses of Parliament, is all that happens to turn a Bill into law. This signifies that the Health and Social Care Bill becomes ...

28 mar 12

Busy busy busy

Another monday and another huge pile of work with patients queuing outside of the door. They were all seen, but this means that my mornings work finished at 3.10 pm, and my afternoons work started at...

26 mar 12

Same old same old

So we discover that you can buy influence within Government. £250,000 will buy you access to the Prime Minster, according to todays Sunday Times.Rich people influencing policy to change it to benefit...

25 mar 12

Spring is here

After three grim months of crushing workload, and a home economy drive, there really is some light at the end of the tunnel.Magnolia ready to flowerI have resigned from the Faculty Board of the Royal...

24 mar 12

First of many

Liberal Democrat publicationWell, they said it was nothing to do with privatisation; we believed nice Mr Cameron, and nice Mr Lansley, didnt we?In the week that the Conservative Government banged the...

23 mar 12

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