Mike O'Callaghan
@mike0callaghan
GP, Engineer.
PhD candidate UL School of Medicine.
Clinical lead Irish College of GPs Research Dept. 🤖
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23-03-2014 10:57:49
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Suzanne Crowe The hours referenced in this article relate to ‘direct patient care’. Each two hours of patient contact in GP generates an hour of paperwork (referrals, following results, actioning results, following up with patient). Headline is deliberately misleading/clickbaiting
Mike O'Callaghan I do 6 hours per day patient facing but another 3-4 per day doing forms, results, letters, referrals, prescriptions etc. People don’t take this into account. Its exhausting
Mike O'Callaghan GP medicine has been transformed & become more complex (&interesting) in recent years. As well as increased follow up of tests and referrals and bureaucracy we have a heavy CPD load just to keep up to date. CPD is always out of hours or weekends.
Joe Cluxton Tracy 💜 ☮️📸 ✍🏼 Great thread. There is no regard for the wellbeing of hcws in the system. Increasingly, we are going the route of the UK and you see how appalling that is. Also the move to dump on providers, not provision. My own GP of 25 years goes above and beyond. Superb. Mike O'Callaghan
Mike O'Callaghan @laucullen1 Great points above (in my case I go into work for a few hours most weekends to catch up on admin); but also important to remember that part-time working is a valid choice, and is particularly important as an option for parents of young children. (1/2)
Mike O'Callaghan @laucullen1 It’s no coincidence that many young doctors planning to start families gravitate towards the only medical specialty where less-than-full-time work is in any way feasible. (2/2)
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