On Wednesday 21 February 2007 23:52, john hilton wrote: > > I organized a locum at ultra short notice at hideous costs > > (he gets 100% of all grossings day and night plus a minimum guarantee of > > $700 for per 6 hours sessional work) > > Wow, that is crazy extortion
No extortion. That's what I offered when I finally found somebody considering doing that day. He'll have to travel and will miss out on another lucrative option elsewhere. But I think it demonstrates my commitment towards providing a reliable medical service for my area. And it is because of this why it makes me so angry beyond control when even that is not enough - just because some lowlife snotnosed bureaucrat clown thinks he or she has to demonstrate their pseudo-importance by procrastinating and delaying the simple administrative process of tagging the locum with a provider number he is entitled to in any case. Yesterday morning I returned from an ambulance transfer of a patient with complete heart block. Got him to the base hospital safely. On the way back our ambulance was diverted - Volvo had slammed with 110 km/h into a school bus. So we help out and ferried some injured teens to the hospital in Bellingen, and there I meet Bellingen's "veteran" GP - Dr Angus McClure. First thing he tells me is that he is leaving, for good. Leaving medicine, that is, going into farming. He loved medicine, but the madness of bureaucracy got the better of him; he said he just could not stand it any longer that every wannabe bureaucrat arsehole feels entitled to trample on him and his nerves and making his work so difficult and taking out all the joy of medicine; so he reckons he will be happier looking after cattle. After my phone call from the HIC re locum provider number few hours later I had a flashback seeing Dr McClures saddened face again, telling me how the bureaucrats wrecked his professional joy. For a few seconds I indulged in some ultra violent fantasies involving kebab spids and red hot charcoal at some Canberra location, counted silently to ten, and then I kept seeing patients until 20:30. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
