A day in the life of a GP Partner
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:28PM 8:15 am : Drive in to work, grab a quick coffee and join the partners and manager for practice meeting. Damn....late by 5 minutes
9:20 am : Meeting finshes....topics included a new patient survey, admin staff retirement and resignation, new salaried GP payscale, problems with the new building, tax bill, etc...all in all this was an intensive meeting
9:20 to 12:30 pm : patients...the usual suspects
1:00 pm : visit- one today
1:50 pm : back from visit, sign prescritions, sign tax return, lease papers, look at a complaint letter, check pathology results
2:30 pm: hungry...heat lunch and eat whilst chatting with colleagues
3:00 pm: patients....the usual suspects ( and some unusual ones)
5:30 pm: sign prescriptions, change patient survey, talk to Nurse Practitioners baout 2 cases
6:00 pm : go through scanned letters, make a couple of referrals, send tasks to admin staff about results, etc
6:45 pm : document afternoon visit
6:50 pm : 2 reports to do
7:00 pm : one report done, too tired to do the other one
7:05 pm : Drive home
This was a quiet day...no emergencies, nothing went wrong.....

