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Friday, December 17, 2004
"LemSip Max Strength sorts the men from the boys"
Poll results: Medical secretaries not top priority
Question: Should Trusts prioritise spending on medical secretarial support?
Yes, more admin support is essential: 12%
Yes, but not as their top priority: 50%
No, this is not a high enough priority 25%
No, there are already enough medical secretaries 12%
Following last week's conference, where medical secretaries came top of doctors' wish lists, the full survey results are available free on PMJ Online.
I've just come back from sick leave after a bout of the flu. However according to the ads for Lemsip, Lockets, Benylin etc, taking time out to recover is a sure route to redundancy or demotion. We should be like the Lemsip man "Steve", cracking on with the workload from home, and then going back into work the next day to whisk the boss off to dinner. Although "Steve" is now allowed to work from home, which is definitely progress, this still seems to imply that taking sick leave equals failure, and that work-life balance is for wimps. (See moreawayoflife for an interesting summary.) So....
New poll: Does Steve the Lemsip Man set a bad example for workers?
Latest news:
A third of consultant physician posts are unfilled (icBerkshire)
Foreign doctors "used as cheap labour" (icCheshire)
Better information on doctors vital, says Shipman report (E-Health Insider)
More trouble over Lothian reorganisation (Scotsman)
Integration of overseas-trained doctors into the Australian medical workforce (MJA)
Q&A on the working time directive
Time management:
The art of efficiency for doctors (BMJ Careers Focus)
Project management for doctors (BMJ Careers Focus)
Tips on managing your emails (BMJ Careers Focus)
Tips on keeping patients' appointments to seven minutes
How to leave work by 5pm (The Productivity Pro)
Research:
The effects of work breaks on staff nurse performance (J Nurs Adm)
The effects of sleep debt and monotonous work on sleepiness and performance during a 12-h dayshift. (J Sleep Res)
Sleep deficit and stress hormones in helicopter pilots on 7-day duty for emergency medical services. (Aviat Space Environ Med)
More sleep makes people happier (Science)
Education:
The new Australian medical schools (MJA)
And also:
An essential guide to life as a basic surgical trainee (BMJ Careers Focus)
How I got over the Christmas flu (CMAJ)
Proof that even box jellyfish sleep at night (MJA)
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Question: Should Trusts prioritise spending on medical secretarial support?
Yes, more admin support is essential: 12%
Yes, but not as their top priority: 50%
No, this is not a high enough priority 25%
No, there are already enough medical secretaries 12%
Following last week's conference, where medical secretaries came top of doctors' wish lists, the full survey results are available free on PMJ Online.
I've just come back from sick leave after a bout of the flu. However according to the ads for Lemsip, Lockets, Benylin etc, taking time out to recover is a sure route to redundancy or demotion. We should be like the Lemsip man "Steve", cracking on with the workload from home, and then going back into work the next day to whisk the boss off to dinner. Although "Steve" is now allowed to work from home, which is definitely progress, this still seems to imply that taking sick leave equals failure, and that work-life balance is for wimps. (See moreawayoflife for an interesting summary.) So....
New poll: Does Steve the Lemsip Man set a bad example for workers?
Latest news:
A third of consultant physician posts are unfilled (icBerkshire)
Foreign doctors "used as cheap labour" (icCheshire)
Better information on doctors vital, says Shipman report (E-Health Insider)
More trouble over Lothian reorganisation (Scotsman)
Integration of overseas-trained doctors into the Australian medical workforce (MJA)
Q&A on the working time directive
Time management:
The art of efficiency for doctors (BMJ Careers Focus)
Project management for doctors (BMJ Careers Focus)
Tips on managing your emails (BMJ Careers Focus)
Tips on keeping patients' appointments to seven minutes
How to leave work by 5pm (The Productivity Pro)
Research:
The effects of work breaks on staff nurse performance (J Nurs Adm)
The effects of sleep debt and monotonous work on sleepiness and performance during a 12-h dayshift. (J Sleep Res)
Sleep deficit and stress hormones in helicopter pilots on 7-day duty for emergency medical services. (Aviat Space Environ Med)
More sleep makes people happier (Science)
Education:
The new Australian medical schools (MJA)
And also:
An essential guide to life as a basic surgical trainee (BMJ Careers Focus)
How I got over the Christmas flu (CMAJ)
Proof that even box jellyfish sleep at night (MJA)
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