Clinics

First week of MO posting..

I know why so many doctors dread clinics.. This must be the reason why polyclinics postings are not that heavenly..

Even in the ortho clinics, there are usually bookings of up to 30 patients a session. This means 6mins a patient including all the paperwork.

I've been a patient before and i am always prepared to wait at least 2 hours to see the spine specialist taking care of me.. 1 hour is a blessing already. I can understand why. It just takes a more inquisitive or demanding patient and there goes the time allocation. Then one will have to rush through other cases or wish that the next case is just a post discharge review of a T and S or something similar

Some patients come in and have multiple other problems on top of their orthopaedic ones.. But how to tell them that they are in an ortho clinic so have to go elsewhere for their cough?
Then there are those who come with family members and both patient and relative complain of 2 different pathologies at the same time..

I guess there's no solution to this.. of course having more clinic rooms open is an option, but when colleagues go on leave.. how to do that?