Viewpoint: Resilience training, really?
‘Resilience training’ that includes yoga and mindfulness is one reason I despair of the RCGP.
Abstract
‘Resilience training’ that includes yoga and mindfulness is one reason I despair of the RCGP. It is unfashionable to say the good GPs burn out or leave. I regard delivering a surgery in the traditional ‘proper’ way, as a complex interaction between physical symptoms and emotions, held within the relationship of ongoing consultations with a nod to prevention and review of chronic illness, as now overwhelming. Reasons, aside from me being older, are multiple and discussed ad infinitum : increased workload; increased consultation rate; more intervention; people living longer; and they older and more frail. Secondary and community services are slipped into elastic, unmeasured, un-costed primary care. Is burnout due to the GP becoming over-involved? If I could learn detached compassion, empathy without feeling, perform …