2025-03-05
25 分钟This is the Guardian.
The Guardian Archive.
Long Read.
Hello,
my name is Claire Gerarda
and the article I wrote in 2022 is called in my 30 years
as a GP the profession has been horribly eroded.
So I decided to write the piece having just done a whole day on call on Boxing Day
and I was driving home,
I'd been working for 12 hours, it was pouring with rain and I felt really miserable.
This was the last on call I would ever do and I felt
that I just couldn't give my patients the sort of care that they needed,
but more importantly the sort of care that I would easily have been able to do 10, 15, 20 years ago.
Well, nothing really has changed.
If anything, the professional values of general practice,
which is about being close to their patient and close to the communities in which they live,
has been even further eroded.
I'm pretty skeptical whether there will be any change
because we seem hell bent in investing in hospitals but not in primary and community care,
which we know if you do invest, saves money, saves time and actually improves patients outcome.