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As a GP in Germany, I struggle with the claim that “people don’t want to work.” In daily practice, I see the opposite: many patients push themselves to keep working, even when they should rest. They worry about burdening colleagues, unfinished tasks, or upcoming deadlines.

If we want to understand rising sick leave, we need to look at real factors: increasing workload, constant pressure, lack of recovery time, social isolation, and overall exhaustion. Reducing this to a question of “motivation” ignores both evidence and lived experience.

In my experience, people who genuinely try to avoid work are a tiny minority. Framing the issue this way feels similar to old narratives about unemployment—oversimplified, misleading, and disconnected from reality.

#MedMastodon #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #WorkStress #MentalHealth #SickLeave #HealthPolicy #Germany #Arbeitswelt #Burnout #PublicHealth #Reform #AU #Arbeitsunfähigkeit #Gesundheitsreform #gesundheitspolitik #gesundheitssystem

As a GP in Germany, I struggle with the claim that “people don’t want to work.” In daily practice, I see the opposite: many patients push themselves to keep working, even when they should rest. They worry about burdening colleagues, unfinished tasks, or upcoming deadlines.

If we want to understand rising sick leave, we need to look at real factors: increasing workload, constant pressure, lack of recovery time, social isolation, and overall exhaustion. Reducing this to a question of “motivation” ignores both evidence and lived experience.

In my experience, people who genuinely try to avoid work are a tiny minority. Framing the issue this way feels similar to old narratives about unemployment—oversimplified, misleading, and disconnected from reality.

#MedMastodon #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #WorkStress #MentalHealth #SickLeave #HealthPolicy #Germany #Arbeitswelt #Burnout #PublicHealth #Reform #AU #Arbeitsunfähigkeit #Gesundheitsreform #gesundheitspolitik #gesundheitssystem

https://www.alojapan.com/1481362/we-planned-for-8-years-but-moving-to-japan-was-not-what-we-expected/ We Planned for 8 Years, but Moving to Japan Was Not What We Expected #CultureShock #DAUGHTER #family #Friendship #GeneralPractice #husband #Japan #JapanTrips #LanguageBarrier #life #NewLife #NewZealand #ProfoundSense #school #time #trips #year After a two-week trip in 2015, my husband and I came home completely hooked on Japan. Loading audio narration… Reliability was the baseline; trains ran with a clockwork precision that transformed the da

That chap writes a lot of sense: Kamran Abbasi’s editorial in the JRSM comments on AI in GeneralPractice amongst other things.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/01410768251397822

#AI #GeneralPractice #GP #JRSM

Collective action is our route to change the NHS for the better. Unsafe political point scoring threatens to destabilise GPs.

🖥️ infinite online consultation access risks dangerous working practices

😔 ARRS GPs with poor pay and fragmented work

💾 Mandatory use of IT that overshares inaccurate data

https://www.gponline.com/lmcs-vote-major-escalation-gp-industrial-action/article/1937381

#NHS #GeneralPractice #UKPolitics #Healthcare

It's been a difficult week. Just feel completely overwhelmed. Amongst Practice Managers 39% are considering leaving their jobs within the next 12 months - it shouldn't be this way, but the feeling of overwhelm is just all too common, and with it the feeling that we should do extra each evening and through the weekend. This weekend I'm saying no. I can only get done what I get done. So no more work. Its beer o'clock! 🍻
#PracticeManagement #NHS #GeneralPractice

NHS won’t survive without properly functioning general practice, medics warn
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/nhs-won-t-survive-without-properly-functioning-general-practice-medics-warn/ar-BB1jTvDm?cvid=ea4ab0c402b74e68f5650d8c9de6a76f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=13

#NHS
#GeneralPractice
#GPs

NHS won’t survive without properly functioning general practice, medics warn
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/nhs-won-t-survive-without-properly-functioning-general-practice-medics-warn/ar-BB1jTvDm?cvid=ea4ab0c402b74e68f5650d8c9de6a76f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=13

#NHS
#GeneralPractice
#GPs

How exercise can treat and prevent anxiety and depression
By Kate Ashton

Experts say there should be more focus on using physical activity, by itself or in combination with other treatments, to treat and prevent depression and anxiety.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-14/mental-health-exercise-treat-prevent-depression-anxiety/103431858

#MentalHealth #ExerciseandFitness #Health #GeneralPractice #KateAshton

Asking symptomatic patients to wear masks in general practice is a great and sustainable path forward. Hopefully this behaviour sticks.

#MasksWork #generalpractice #FamilyMedicine #emergencymedicine

Asking symptomatic patients to wear masks in general practice is a great and sustainable path forward. Hopefully this behaviour sticks.

#MasksWork #generalpractice #FamilyMedicine #emergencymedicine

This is a wholly depressing story - GP surgery just shutting.

Then comes the realisation / questions
- where do those patients now go?
- do other surgeries even have capacity for them?

#NHS #UK #healthcare #generalpractice #ukpolitics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1llep128yo

This is a wholly depressing story - GP surgery just shutting.

Then comes the realisation / questions
- where do those patients now go?
- do other surgeries even have capacity for them?

#NHS #UK #healthcare #generalpractice #ukpolitics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1llep128yo

Hey, look, someone studied retractions in #PrimaryCare journals! (#paywalled)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04850-y

The way I see it, the lower proportion of retracted articles is due to the journals placing less emphasis on sensationalism (disclosure: I'm an associate editor)

#ScholarlyPublishing #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine #MedMastodon

Hey, look, someone studied retractions in #PrimaryCare journals! (#paywalled)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04850-y

The way I see it, the lower proportion of retracted articles is due to the journals placing less emphasis on sensationalism (disclosure: I'm an associate editor)

#ScholarlyPublishing #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine #MedMastodon

Just added the CRISP reporting guideline to the Zotero shared library on primary care research!

https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.3029

https://mastodon.social/@lffontenelle/109541543438474486

#PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #GeneralPractice

Sounds about right...

Being a full time GP is now ‘unmanageable’, says College

#PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #RCGP #GeneralPractice

https://www.rcgp.org.uk/News/Being-a-full-time-GP-is-now-unmanageable

Today my clinical review on the primary care approach to kidney stones and renal colic received its hundredth citation!

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2019/0415/p490.html

#MedMastodon #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #GeneralPractice

Australian general practice is in a financial crisis that has highlighted the tension at the heart of Medicare: it’s marketed as a public service but its foundation is the private, for-profit business of medicine.
I wrote about it for the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1769.full?ijkey=nf23SJrfITUMi6E&keytype=ref
#GeneralPractice #GP #Medicare #PrimaryHealthCare #Medicine

Australian general practice is in a financial crisis that has highlighted the tension at the heart of Medicare: it’s marketed as a public service but its foundation is the private, for-profit business of medicine.
I wrote about it for the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1769.full?ijkey=nf23SJrfITUMi6E&keytype=ref
#GeneralPractice #GP #Medicare #PrimaryHealthCare #Medicine

Increase your knowledge with a new free short module on severe ME/CFS, created by Dr. Nina Muirhead in honor of #SevereMEDay, worth 0.5 CPD points.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaxO7NxelbWZWpNy4K38__kgSeJT3ZQNAjyvfcGbojyVxJUA/viewform
#MedMastodon #MedEd #MedicalEducation #CPD #GeneralPractice #nurses #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

Increase your knowledge with a new free short module on severe ME/CFS, created by Dr. Nina Muirhead in honor of #SevereMEDay, worth 0.5 CPD points.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaxO7NxelbWZWpNy4K38__kgSeJT3ZQNAjyvfcGbojyVxJUA/viewform
#MedMastodon #MedEd #MedicalEducation #CPD #GeneralPractice #nurses #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

Oh, how much to love about this small, creative, musically-minded English community seeking a GP to replace one of their retiring doctors.
https://www.lostwithielneedsadoctor.org
#Lostwithiel #GP #doctors #medical #musical #community #England #UK #healthcare #lovethis #GeneralPractice #Cornwall #Doctor

Oh, how much to love about this small, creative, musically-minded English community seeking a GP to replace one of their retiring doctors.
https://www.lostwithielneedsadoctor.org
#Lostwithiel #GP #doctors #medical #musical #community #England #UK #healthcare #lovethis #GeneralPractice #Cornwall #Doctor

Hey, GPs, Family Doctors, Primary Physicians, Primary Care Health Professionals across the world, get your abstracts in for WONCA in Sydney this year.
https://wonca.racgp.org.au/wonca-2023/home
I want to hear your songs and see your dancing
#GeneralPractice @generalpractice #MedMastodon

Hey, GPs, Family Doctors, Primary Physicians, Primary Care Health Professionals across the world, get your abstracts in for WONCA in Sydney this year.
https://wonca.racgp.org.au/wonca-2023/home
I want to hear your songs and see your dancing
#GeneralPractice @generalpractice #MedMastodon

I also wondered for the #BJGP what the health system would lose if there weren't any GPs.
https://bjgplife.com/a-world-without-general-practice/
I really hope we don't get to find out if I am right or not. (I am!)
#GeneralPractice #MedMastodon

In case you are interested, I have been doing some writing, though.
As GPs stop bulk billing in Australia, because it doesn't cover the cost of care, we really do need to keep fighting for universal health care. https://medicalrepublic.com.au/why-we-mustnt-stop-fighting-for-medicare/83276
#GeneralPractice
#HealthEquity
@generalpractice
@healthequity

My #introduction list of hashtags
#cello #classical #classicalmusic #orchestra #amateurorchestras #folkmusic #music #englishfolk #comhaltas #folklore #boxaccordion #accordion #suzukiviolin #suzukimethod #youthmusic
#nature #ClimateEmergency #climatechange #ecology #biodiversity #forests
#chickenkeeping #chickens
#catsofmastodon
#generalpractice #NHS #medical #medicine
#citycycling #cycling #sustainabletransport
#family
#running #wildswimming
#diversity #equality #socialjustice

Well #MedMastodon, allow me to show you my latest article in the BJGP, Where to find a disease.
https://bjgp.org/content/72/724/540
It matters where we think the location of pathology is....
#GeneralPractice #HealthEquity
@generalpractice
@healthequity

I've also created a group about #HealthEquity, because that's my thing, and because it's really important.
@healthequity
Tag it for your toots to go to all the group followers (just me so far!) and follow it to get all the tagged toots.
#MedMastodon #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine

Well, we now have a group about General Practice (@generalpractice)
Tag it to your toots to go to all the group followers (just me so far!) and follow it to get all the tagged toots.
#MedMastodon #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine