Guest blogger Dr Mike Forsythe writes….
The tally chart scribbled on the back of an old patient information leaflet sits on the desk in front of me, and it doesn’t make any sense. There’s a happy face on one side, a sad face on the other, and beneath each poorly drawn emoji a collection of dashes providing a pictorial representation of my morning clinic; a clinic that has left me exhausted and demoralised. There were sixteen patients in all, and I have been left with the overwhelming impression that the morning has been an unmitigated disaster.