Hi 👋 I’m The Secret Doctor, and from today I’m going to be posting content from the perspective of a working doctor. I work as a GP, and my motivation for doing this is to share with you, the general public, what it’s really like behind the curtain.
Now, more than ever, it’s important for everyone to understand the facts and not get caught up in any narrative driven agenda. It’s an unfortunate shame that many patients and people are being left frustrated by being unable to access their doctor, but what’s worse still is..
..the active campaign of misinformation run by the media which aims to take the pressure away from politicians and onto hard working doctors and healthcare staff in the country. I hope to engage with you in a way that reveals our compassionate nature as healthcare workers.
I also would love to share health information with you in a modern way that’s easily accessible, in bite sized chunks. Health education is important and we can only improve the health of the population by removing barriers to accessing that information.
Reframing the way you think about work. See below for some very interesting ideas🧵 👇
In“Why Is It So Hard to Do My Work?” Sophie Leroy, a Business Professor, studied the phenomenon of switching between tasks. She found attention stays attached to the 1st activity, which means we can only half-focus on the 2nd, which hurts our performance.
She called this mental carry over in switching from task 1 to task 2 ‘Attention Residue.’ In short it’s better to focus on one task at a time and complete that before moving on to the next. 💪
Agreed. There has been a dramatic shift in health needs due to changing expectations and the digitisation of information for health. With almost everyone owning a smartphone everyone has access to knowledge with very little friction.
What this means is that people can access information at the touch of a button. In theory this is great. However for healthcare workers it poses a few problems.
1) Increased demand for our service - people will seek to validate their deepest health fears through seeking our advice. Some will be happy with advice, others almost want us to prove them wrong, meaning more tests and more appointments for things that reassurance used to cure.
GPs representatives have voted to cut core hours from 9am-5pm from the existing agreed core hours of 8am-6.30pm. pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breaking-…
Here’s my take on this. When you look at studies of productivity and work performance, working longer hours is associated with the following: Decreased productivity, poor performance, health related problems and lower motivation. The health problems disproportionately impact..
..women in the workforce and we already have a well known problem with inequality in the workplace. The most common reason for long hours was to ‘meet the needs of the job.’ This is reflected in the following: employment-studies.co.uk/report-summari…