TY - JOUR T1 - Viewpoint: Resilience training, <em>really?</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 80 LP - 80 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X694625 VL - 68 IS - 667 AU - Sarah Evans Y1 - 2018/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/667/80.abstract N2 - ‘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 … ER -