Thursday, 11 March 2010

under pressure

weighing down on me, under pressure.. as the song goes. And that describes the feeling today pretty well. All the patients seem to have difficult to understand, even harder to solve, problems. Patients where I've already tried everything I could think of, including hospital referral, yet they're still not right, and what am I going to do about it? Somehow I get through to the end without losing my cool, but then I have to run several audits in order to qualify for certain types of remuneration. Name after name after name must be typed in and their notes scrutinised- but I shouldn't complain: my partners do even more of this work than I do and it doesn't seem to bother them.

I can't wait to get home and entrench myself on my security sofa, where my wife will sustain me and allay my all pervading sense of fear. It helps, as always, but only to a limited extent. A very difficult day.

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