CONTACT SPENCER AT:
spencer.wells@connectcommunications.co.uk Biting back with Spencer Wells
No names – just fun and games
you a wee bit of background on myself. I’ve never written in a magazine before, I post the odd thing on
GDPUK.com every now and then but there isn’t much to interest us Scots there at the moment. What with all the HTM whatever it is, and CQC ranting and raving…I swing between thinking ‘ha ha’ and ‘who cares?’ To put it bluntly, I am a late
A
40s, greying-round-the-edges, bog-standard dentist. I’ve got a standard bog as well, but it has been adapted for disabled use, so that should suit my nurse who has a physical incapacity to go an hour without sloping out for a fag. I’ve owned a practice for longer than is good for my san-
s this is my first c olumn f o r Scottish Dental magazine, I thought I’d give
ity, mainly NHS with the odd bit of private here and there – and by odd, I mean the patients. I attend the occasional course or meeting to keep up to date and shoot the breeze with old friends, and I am up to here with writing policies on health and
be back home with the missus and the teenager who mooches around like the world owes him a living. I’d been hoping he would follow in my footsteps, in other words take over the prac- tice so I can talk to my plants all day long, but he isn’t showing
“I’ve owned a practice for longer than is good for my sanity, mainly NHS with the odd bit of private here and there – and by odd, I mean the patients”
safety and all that rubbish we have to spend time on these days. I have a long-term associ- ate who gets on my nerves, and a younger one that thinks he knows it all, so I might as well
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much interest in pulling his fin- ger out any time soon. So, in other words, I reckon I am just like quite a lot of you: Grief at work, grief at home, and turning into a Grumpy Old
Man (love that programme, I am definitely turning into my father). These days, it seems we are all being strangled by bureaucracy and, for that reason, I have decided to be anonymous, because I don’t want to go above any radars just because I have had a moan and a whinge. I know it’s a cop out, but Big
Daddy is always watching – well, Big Brother is finished, so my nurse reliably informs me, so who else can watch over us now,
lying in wait with the
proverbial banana skin so we can get the legs pulled from under us? Never mind, maybe someday I will reveal myself, like that guy with the motorbike helmet on the popular BBC motoring show. If that day ever comes I hope to God you have your dark glasses on, as I’m not a pretty sight!
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