TY - JOUR T1 - Should I go or should I stay? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 797 LP - 797 VL - 56 IS - 531 AU - Mark Vorster Y1 - 2006/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/56/531/797.2.abstract N2 - Having been an NHS GP for 16 years, nowadays two things go through my mind every day I am in my practice: How to take the line of least resistance to get to the end of the day;How do I continue to engineer my career to reduce my frontline GP work (having already succeeded in reducing it to half time over the last few years, while being able to pay the mortgage). It has been said that GPs become GPs rather than specialists because of their independence of spirit. This tendency has become an increasing problem as we move further and further towards being micromanaged to the point of absurdity. The control freakery, lurking in the background for some years, has reached new heights … ER -