The Doctor Can’t See You Now: Reflections of a Retiring GP - Softcover

Maddams, Dr David John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784529044 ISBN 13: 9781784529048

Publisher: Panoma Press, 2019

Synopsis

A Doctor’s Dilemma.

Juggling a busy medical career and a carer to two elderly parents, his final year as a GP was never going to be easy. The NHS is on the brink of collapse as David Maddams tells his funny yet poignant story.

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About the Author

David Maddams lives in Hertfordshire with his GP wife. Both children studied medicine suggesting they never listened to a single word their parents said. He has been medical editor to the magazine 4 Girlz and was recommended for Fellowship of the Royal College of GPs in September 2019.

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PREFACE Age 59 and with 35 years of experience of being a doctor, I decided to write down my thoughts and experiences as I started to complete what I envisaged would be my final year as a GP during one of the NHS’s most difficult times in its 70-year existence. Things were so bad that NHS staff were leaving in droves and the service was close to breaking point. Many excellent GPs younger than me had already left. Would I manage to hold on for another year or would I go the way of others before me? As I reminisced about my former years as a doctor all kinds of memories and thoughts came to the surface. Why did things need to change for change’s sake anyway as many developments in the year were having a negative impact on family doctors? Were we seeing the end of general practitioners as we have known them? Then there was the problem of was I ready to retire? What would become of me and my patients? Clearly my final year would be far from straightforward and what would be the outcome in the end?

Edition details

• Publisher: Panoma Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784529044
• ISBN 13: 9781784529048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128