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As opposed to what babe? CBT should also be offered but there's a waiting list? GPs can't fix the cost of living crisis or personal trauma and fluoxetine is an anti depressant? So 400mg?
£75k to be a GP is so sad.
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if you can’t read a scientific paper- then my top tip is to at the very least read what the authors themselves have said
But thanks for the continued doctor baiting.
Irresponsible and inflammatory as usual.
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What is worrying is that this document was co-produced by the @RCPhysicians, @acutemedicine and @GeriSoc.
The inference is that all these groups now endorse fully endorse workforce substitution.
After the furore over PAs, this is bitterly disappointing. Because it is the same
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You’re absolutely allowed to think whatever you believe
In the same way, as an anaesthetic consultant who’s spent an awful lot of time on ITU, I’m allowed to tell you current health policy is cynical & unsafe IMHO
Amazing physios yes
Amazing physios on medical rotas, no
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Dr Substitution is an uphill battle
AHP’s mark their own homework with ropey, biased research, policy makers lap it up b/c healthcare costs are spiralling & a few senior, self interested medics enable it
Just one question…
Why will private patients always see a consultant?🤔
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patients never want to hear how to actually treat it, they just want tablets.
If someone says "stop drinking 6 cups of coffee and red bull, drink 3L water, wake up at 0600 every day and get bright light immediately upon wake, and follow sleep hygiene guidelines" they get upset
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Criticising one form of substitution while championing another is a logical fallacy however fervently one tries to deflect & deny it
Long-standing qualifications to do a safety critical job don’t just disappear
Leadership needs to be more common sense & less about agenda
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It’s sort of amazing how the nation has been hoodwinked into believe that GPs must be doing nothing if people can’t get appointments.
Plumbers, hairdressers, pop stars, swanky restaurants all have waiting lists for the best.
You can’t get an appointment because theyre all full.
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the brainwashing of the great british public must be studied. excellent psy-op from the government who’ve managed to convince the average joe with a room temperature IQ that not being able to see doctors = they’re not doing anything, rather than the logical “they must be busy”.
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Did you know that only doctors see patients in hospitals in developing countries (such as Qatar and Dubai)?
If they spotted a nurse in charge of patient care in ED resus, the relatives would burn the hospital to the ground.
ACPs can do this only in the UK.
🏴☠️ This is the value of nursing as a profession these days:
Just qualified as a nurse and unsure if to do ACP or Graduate entry medicine.
⭕️ A Couple of ACPs I spoke to said they do all things even the consultants do including even surgery in ENT but they just don't get the same wages.
⭕️ ACP is around 60k whereas eventually reaching consultant level is 140k.
⭕️ It's not about the money but you wouldn't have to work full time so would be less stressed overall on higher pay.
Absolutely shambolic.
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I have covered any personal details other than my name- even though the PA posting the comments thought nothing of including my full name and GMC number, repeatedly urging people to report me.
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Lawyer charges £25 for an email no one bats an eye lid. Doctor signs something which in turn makes them liable putting their registration on the line that is not covered by their contract “disgusting they charge ” Doctors are the only profession ppl expect to do all for free
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There’s a far bigger problem for GP training and I imagine why a lot of UKGs may start to further reduce going for it - the DoH is killing GP and primary care in the uk
The only real sustainable way to be a GP in the uk in 5-10 years will be private
And this uncertainty etc must be impacting UKG acceptance rates of GP training
Plus if training is dotted around the country - then incentivising some areas more so financially etc.
All what sensible companies would be doing if they wanted talent
The NHS doesn’t want talent (ie doctors) instead it wants bargain basement non doctors to give the illusion of care and service
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Yet PAs/A Ps/ACPs are afforded the stability of not having to move around the country. They even state this offers continuity. Strikes me Drs are given a raw deal, aside from these interlopers posing as Drs & not medically trained, they're paid more.
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Well you’d need to do an ACP course, which will involve unlearning Medicine as much as possible, then do a couple of DOPS on patients with splenomegaly, then maybe do a random DHealth on consent forms in the NHS, and there you go!
“Doctoral Haematology” level advanced practice.
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9 out of 10 is quite a stretch
Majority of eye problems in primary care are simple infections which should and can be treated by a primary care doctor
Where complicated, the referral is to an OPHTHALMOLOGIST
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Which would be fine if the job wasn't mostly take, take, take...
Thrown around the country with £100k debt, impossible competition for training, temporary contracts, and mostly service provision work roles... goodwill has run out.
Previous generations let this happen. We won't.
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I am in my 40s, I am a bit bored of being a GP. I would like a pathway to be a Hematologist, but want to start on salary of a Consultant of 10 yrs in as I have a family & bills. I also don’t want to work weekends &nights as I train. When can I start in your Dept @Anisocyte ?