David Oliver: The Bawa-Garba case, doctors, and the GMC—what next?
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David Oliver: Older doctors revisited.
I’ve never had a response to a column quite like that to Keeping Older Doctors in the Job. As well as several public rapid responses, including an inspirational paean to rural general practice from Dr James Douglas, I received over 100 private emails. I calculate the median respondent’s age as 68. Others replied on Twitter to #olderdoctors. My respondents weren’t a scientifically constructed sa...
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I recently saw a wonderful stage adaptation ofGroundhog Day. Phil Connors, a misanthropic TV weatherman, gets stuck in small town America, living out the exact same day on a loop. He soon realises that he can act wilfully without consequences—unlike doctors. For us, every interaction and decision has potential consequences, from life saving to catastrophic, and many are remembered by patients f...
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I’m 51. I started working as an NHS doctor at 23 and got my first consultant job at 32. My father, Fred, was one of the NHS’s first consultant general adult psychiatrists to subspecialise in old age psychiatry. His former colleagues tell me that he had a huge work ethic and was ever present. Ultimately, however, I think that he was glad to stop. At 55 he took a special dispensation designed to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k646