A full day at work today, and another extra session on Thursday, with the same next week to cover partner's holidays, make it the busiest work schedule for me since my retirement. And to add to the strain, this morning I was told that as patients learn I am in work more often at the moment, literally dozens have been queuing up to see me specifically. Obviously this is a personal compliment, though somewhat of a mixed blessing as it only adds to the length of already packed surgeries.
And of course Murphy's Law also applies: namely, that the busier a surgery becomes, the more complex and difficult-to-solve problems occur with it. Like the man this morning complaining of sudden reduction of vision in 1 eye. Something about him makes me think he is lying; that he is fabricating his story in order to hustle his routine appointment at the eye clinic to investigate his allergic conjunctivitis. But you can't just sit there and accuse a patient of lying, so I arranged (with some difficulty) his emergency appointment. If he is making it up, they will work it out soon enough and send him packing. If not, then I will have done a good job.
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