GPs’ top 10 tips for preventing burnout
Colouring books, pottery and journaling are helping doctors avoid ‘compassion fatigue’, reveals Twitter discussion.
Tag: Workload
‘Real medicine is nothing like TV’: Read the GP open letter to difficult patients
A practice in the UK has told its patients they must stop demanding instant cures for minor ailments.
Can being on call overnight up your risk of death?
Study suggests less than six hours of sleep a night increases mortality from MI, stroke and heart failure.
GPs resign from hospital over long, unsafe hours
GP Dr Bob Vickers says the doctors who worked at Singleton Hospital's ED were burnt out and sick of their concerns being ignored.Â
Overworked GPs write open letter to difficult patients
Family doctors at a UK practice have penned a 16-page missive that lays the blame for long waits at patients' feet.
‘One of the worst cases of neglect of duty of care’
The delayed treatment of a child with a ruptured appendix at an Adelaide hospital has highlighted how overloaded the service is, says retired local…
Doctors still working 48-hour shifts
Surgeon and AMA councillor Dr Shehnarz Salindera is giving evidence to a NSW inquiry which has heard of concerns over long hours and natural disast…
Junior doctors launch lawsuit over unpaid overtime
It follows an AMA report which found junior doctors in the state were working 16 hours of overtime per week on average
Doctor suspended over prescribing mix-ups
After a series of medication errors caught by the local pharmacist, the GP described himself as 'totally out of his depth'.
Rural GPs struggling with post-coronavirus fatigue
RDAA president-elect Dr Megan Belot says that travel restrictions have prevented locum coverage, so doctors haven't been able to take a break in ma…
