It is observed that many doctors working full time from 8 am to 5pm, also do private practice at home or at another private clinic. With exception of some hyperenergetic doctors, most of them feel very irritable and suffer from lack of focus at the main hospital. They often take short breaks at the OPD, to regain lost energy. Besides, they do not feel like exercising their brains in dufficult cases also and leave such cases to other doctors or refer to others quite often.
Many of them loose patience at the main hospital. In this context, it may be opined that doctors working full time in a hospital should not indulge in exessive private practice or at the most restrict to 10-12 patients at private practice, in the interest of the patients and his own health. Do you think that most overworked doctors suffer from burnt out syndrome? Should one work full-time in one hospital and also do…
