CONTACT SPENCER AT: spencer.wells@connectcommunications.co.uk Biting back with Spencer Wells


New year, same stuff B


y the time you read this, it will be well into 2011 – hope it was a good one for


you and yours. I was more melancholy than usual on Hogmanay, dismayed by the absence of ‘Chewing the Fat’ on BBC1. Thank goodness for ‘Only an Excuse’ to keep some amusement in the TV viewing. I like Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, but felt cheated a few years back when I realised it was recorded mid-December. Mrs Wells stayed on the


tomato juice to fulfil taxi- driving duties for Master Wells while I had a wee glass of my single malt and struggled to stay awake for the bells. Well, I had been working on the 31st, catching up on some of the unfinished stuff from December. That was a right carry on – I


live slightly out of town and couldn’t get into work at first when the snow hit the fan, while the patients who roll out of bed into the practice (often still attired in night clothes) are busy


moaning about me not being there. My associate couldn’t get her BMW out of the street; my heart bled, but not half as much as the tears I’ll be shedding when I see the December-paid January schedule, just in time for the tax bill… Mind you, it used to be worse. Back in the good old days, the tax was owed on January 1st – so you had to


ister depot contraception to my staff – the practice has had two pregnancies in two years and a hat trick will drive me to drink. I also need to be good and start doing clinical audit, having been a bit patchy in my commitment over the last couple of years. I just cannot be bothered with it. I know it’s in the regs, but it’s boring, too


“I had a wee glass of my single malt and struggled to stay awake for the bells. Well, I had been working on the 31st, catching up on some of the unfinished stuff from December”


pay it over before Christmas to make sure it was on time, it was murderous! I have decided to make a


couple of New Year resolu- tions to save my sanity in 2011. First and most important, I am going to prescribe and admin-


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easy to fake the results (so I am told) and setting one up demands a degree of imagina- tion, which I don’t have – it’s a man thing! I suppose you do get paid for it (eventually) so I better dredge up an idea before I get booted up the backside by


hates the simulations, har har) and I still cannot for the life of me remember how many breaths you give per chest compression, it changes every time. How the hell am I supposed to keep up with it? Oh, it’s a struggle.


the head honchos (sighing as I am writing – what a waste of time). I also need to get myself onto an IRMER course, which have been a bit thin on the ground over the last couple of years – ridiculous considering it’s a core subject. What wor- ries me though is that I do the CPR training every year with the whole practice (everyone


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