If this bleeding is not stemmed, the prognosis for the health system is grave. | OPINION
At the end of every workday as a busy GP, I feel like I have run a marathon. No - like I have sprinted from case to case. From my current vantage point I’ve had time to wipe the sweat from my brow and take a long drink. And what I can see is a health sector that is imploding around us.
We hear of patients at emergency departments waiting for hours – half a day or more to be seen – and from there are being treated in dimly lit hallways in the hospital bowels. They say the work of a good GP is invisible. It is also immeasurable. It is difficult to ascertain the cost of a life saved by detecting a cancer early enough to avoid repeated hospital admissions, or by managing the diabetes that prevents the strokes/blindness/arterial disease, or by holding one’s trauma in the consult room with weekly check-in sessions just to show that someone cares. We don’t have KPIs for this work.
have recently been given the go ahead to prescribe a whole range of medications like antibiotics for issues like urinary tract infections
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