What can doctors do to increase their job satisfaction?
Accountability isn’t going to go away, so one thing doctors could do is find ways to concentrate on what they are good at and what they enjoy, which will usually be clinical work and patient care – and find someone else to do the things they are less good at and enjoy less. GPs are particularly well placed to do this. They can bring in proper managers to manage the practice, under their medical direction. GPs have a big advantage here in that they would be employing the managers rather than vice versa in the hospital system. I’m talking about managers here, incidentally, not administrators – people who can help work out what the different people in the practice are good at and help them play to their strengths, who can look ahead as well as ensuring things run smoothly on a day to day basis and who are genuinely concerned to help the practice deliver a better medical service to patients. There are some good managers out there who don’t want to work for the big corporates but would rath
