IF

If you can daily take a hundred calls from patients who are ill

And calmly treat their every need with kindness and with skill

.

If vaccines you must organise, when you receive the call

Despite just when they will arrive, you’ve no idea at all

.

If liable you’re asked to be for what you can’t control

And then are made to feel the guilt, when not your fault at all

.

If you can work long stress filled hours and then read in the press

That you’re a lazy ne’er do well who just could not care less

.

If you can fill each passing minute with an hours worth of work

Then you’re in primary care my dear where life is just berserk.

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[after Rudyard Kipling]

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Author: Peteaird

Nothing particularly interesting to say about myself other than after 27 years working as a GP, I was delighted, at the start of December 2023, to start work as the South West Regional Representative of the Slavic Gospel Association (SGA). You can read about what they do at sga.org.uk. I am also an avid Somerset County Cricket Club supporter and a poor example of a Christian who likes to put finger to keyboard from time to time and who is foolish enough to think that someone out there might be interested enough to read what I've written. Some of these blogs have grown over time and some portions of earlier blogs reappear in slightly different forms in later blogs. I apologise for the repetition. If you are involved in a church in the southwest of England and would like to hear more of SGA’s work, do get in touch. I’d love to come and talk a little, or even a lot, about what they get up to!.