‘Resilience training’ that includes yoga and mindfulness is one reason I despair of the RCGP.
It is unfashionable to say the good GPs burn out or leave. I regard delivering a surgery in the traditional ‘proper’ way, as a complex interaction between physical symptoms and emotions, held within the relationship of ongoing consultations with a nod to prevention and review of chronic illness, as now overwhelming. Reasons, aside from me being older, are multiple and discussed ad infinitum: increased workload; increased consultation rate; more intervention; people living longer; and they older and more frail. Secondary and community services are slipped into elastic, unmeasured, un-costed primary care.
Is burnout due to the GP becoming over-involved? If I could learn detached compassion, empathy without feeling, perform …
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