I hope my doctors read journals and participate other formal training during their normal work hours as a part of providing better service to me. Working too many hours will eventually lead to problems, but so will lack of continuing education.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Walt Farrell > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 12:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Secure Service Delivery > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:14:52 -0500, John Gilmore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >I have experimented with this number---Note that it includes > >professional development, e.g., journal reading, web browsing, meeting > >attendance and the like, things that are not immediately relevant to > >the task at hand ---and I do not think 5% is enough. > > > >It is low by the standards of other professions. Medical doctors, for > >example, devote as much as 25% of their time to this sort of thing. > > But do they do it during the day (taking time away from patients), or > do they do it nights and weekends? Knowing how many hours my previous > primary care provider worked in the office, and how much administrative > work he did beyond that, I was never sure how he found the time even to > read the journals let alone do any formal training. > > -- > Walt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
