Day Three in the Primary Care jungle

Day Three. Tasks today are designed to show the contestants negotiating skills, and demonstrate an understanding of the Choice agenda beloved of the show's controllers.




Task 1) Convince an irate Granny that the fact that's she's waiting for a washing machine to be delivered this morning, and will be out having her hair done in the afternoon, is not an acceptable reason for a home visit to discuss her ingrowing toenail..and no, you couldn't just do a flu jab at the same time



Task 2) Explain to the nice young man at the Department of Work and Pensions that just because I happen to be the patient's GP, does not necessarily mean that I know whether the workshy, drug using little gobshite, he has in his office, is capable of managing his own cooking and cleaning, and frankly how that is relevant to whether he's entitled to benefit is beyond me, because he's currently of no fixed abode.



Task 3) Describe using only appropriate hand gestures, to Wayne, that having a tendency to get bored when sitting around for any length of time, is not an adequate explanation to put in a letter asking for exemption from jury service....especially as that very activity appears to have been his sole profession for the past seven years



Task 4) Engage in a long discussion with Mrs Entitled from the posher end of your Practice area, and explain that nothing fantastic that she has read about in The Daily Mail in the last six months is going to get prescribed for her in the current political climate and that the Health correspondants on the Daily Mail are to a man (and woman) a bunch of medical illiterates, who hate GPs and are clearly paid to write articles by Drug companies.