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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Those are eye opening figures for sure.
I think the most stressed staff in hospitals in my view are doctors, they always the ones swamped with work whenever I go, rather than nurses. eg. when going to the eye clinic, the nurse see's everyone within 5 minutes. But then its a 30+ min wait for the doctor after. In eye casualty its even worse, 4 nurses and only 1 doctor, see a nurse within 5-10 minutes then usually 4 hours at least wait for the doctor. Once when I went to a cardic department on an ambulance, I remember seeing a group of nurses chatting to each other for a while, but any doctor I seen seemed always busy. I think was 2 doctors in that department.
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Doctors do have a heavy workload but all the ones i know tend to have a way of coping by learning not to stress out most of the ones i come into contact with in the NHS are quite relaxed until they have a real emergency on their hands.
I did a course a few years ago stressful jobs in the NHS came up and we all got the answer wrong according to the course leader the most stressful job was a medical secretary as they get shouted at from all sides with letters needing to be written,Medical notes found and phone calls made ,certainly i have seen medical secretaries shouted at.