Monday. He’s off sick again.  He’s in a mood.  She’s always happy.  That’s always weird. I try to creep in because I’m five minutes late.  I don’t know why I do this because I never go home on time but for some reason I creep in.  And I’m the practice manager. I log in and…

She says it’s her hormones. She says that’s why she threw the calculator at the toilet door. From reception. She says her hormones make her angry. She says it was nothing to do with the patient that asked her if she was pregnant. When she is not. She says it’s her hormones. The patient then…

1) On achieving victory: When you prove a partner wrong 2) On bank holidays: When everyone’s looking forward to a bank holiday off relaxing but you’ve got to work 3) On goodbyes: When a difficult patient finally leaves 4) On being mobbed: When you’re understaffed and get flooded with problems 5) On GP partners: When…

Share by email or pin (discreetly) on the office noticeboard if your team need a little pick me up. Go on – it’s Christmas! ‘Doctor, doctor, can I have second opinion?’ ‘Certainly. Come back tomorrow!’ ‘Doctor, doctor, I keep seeing images of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck!’ ‘I see, and how long have you been…

Well, I seem to have so much to rant about this week that I’m not sure where to start, so here goes… sugar tax…really?! Is increasing the cost of sugar really truly actually going to stop our kids from being obese? No, of course it isn’t. Don’t the powers what be understand that education (which…

I’ve just returned to work from a week’s leave – fabulous weather, for late September in England (!) and we moved into a house with a sea view. Totally gorgeous. I always dread my first day back though. You know what it’s like – you spend three quarters of that first day just catching up…

I started writing my blog this week because my beloved wanted to catch up with the footie…… I’m not averse to sport, but 22 men on a field chasing a ball, what is that all about?! So with nothing on the TV I thought I’d give you my thoughts on a couple of television programmes…