So nearly skiing
The holiday to Cor Cheval is finally in sight. It couldn't come too soon to be honest. I'm fed up of working and cooking and all of the chores you can avoid whilst on hols. A is having a tough time at work with the possibilities of redundancy hanging over her head. Even though she hates her job she needs to find another one before she leaves this. Sadly her attempts to get another job (her recent interview) were unsuccessful. They told her that they needed someone to come in and make 10% cuts. That's not really her style, she's not really a hatchet woman more a give everyone a job for life and a 35 hour maximum week woman so she is probably better off where she is for now.
I can hardly take the inanity of my RMO job at C. Every time they call me I know its going to be for crap. Crap that requires no clinical skill, no diagnostic ability in short no brain. "Can you come and write Lady Fartymore-Smithe up for a warm flannel?". "Can you go to pharmacy and get ten build up milkshakes because pharmacy has closed?". I feel like Gordon Ramsey being forced to flip burgers in MaccyD's.
The other day I saw a family hand over 5k in cash to a manager to pay for this old chap to be admitted. He has diabetes and a bit of a chest infection. He doesn't need inpatient care. Any fool can see that. He needs a bit of TLC and some antibiotic pills. His consultant who he was admitted under communicated to me only through a nurse gave the following instructions. Take blood and give i.v. antibiotics and he would probably be in tomorrow to see him. He hadn't seen the patient. And couldn't be bothered to come in or even to have a conversation with me. He just takes his cut of that cash that family handed over. The family get shit care for their Dad. They'd be better off in the NHS at least they'd get seen by a medical team not a surgical SHO they'd get the right treatment not commands issued blind to the clinical situation over the phone. He wouldn't have been admitted but then he didn't need that. But he'd be better of checked into the Hilton and he could take his pills there.
I can hardly take the inanity of my RMO job at C. Every time they call me I know its going to be for crap. Crap that requires no clinical skill, no diagnostic ability in short no brain. "Can you come and write Lady Fartymore-Smithe up for a warm flannel?". "Can you go to pharmacy and get ten build up milkshakes because pharmacy has closed?". I feel like Gordon Ramsey being forced to flip burgers in MaccyD's.
The other day I saw a family hand over 5k in cash to a manager to pay for this old chap to be admitted. He has diabetes and a bit of a chest infection. He doesn't need inpatient care. Any fool can see that. He needs a bit of TLC and some antibiotic pills. His consultant who he was admitted under communicated to me only through a nurse gave the following instructions. Take blood and give i.v. antibiotics and he would probably be in tomorrow to see him. He hadn't seen the patient. And couldn't be bothered to come in or even to have a conversation with me. He just takes his cut of that cash that family handed over. The family get shit care for their Dad. They'd be better off in the NHS at least they'd get seen by a medical team not a surgical SHO they'd get the right treatment not commands issued blind to the clinical situation over the phone. He wouldn't have been admitted but then he didn't need that. But he'd be better of checked into the Hilton and he could take his pills there.
posted by Phil at 11:19 am
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Hi Phil... a colleague of mine is off to Honduras this summer with Operation Wallacea -- thought you might be interested in this message she posted, make you feel better about having spent all those years doing medicine...
Want to do something amazing this summer?! Operation Wallacea (www.opwall.com) is a company that runs conservation research expeditions in remote corners of the globe. They are looking for medics to join the expeditions (periods of 2 - 8 weeks) to Honduras, Indonesia, Egypt, South Africa and Cuba. Travel bursaries are provided and all onsite costs supported.
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