Fifty plus phone calls to make of a morning
CQC visits with too little warning
He who a very long problem list brings
These are a few of my least favourite things
Not enough bottles now for venesection
Those who are rude to the staff in reception
Just one appointment for several siblings
These are a few of my least favourite things
Visit requests at the end of the hard days
Ambulance shortages causing long delays
Slurs that at GPs the press daily slings
These are a few of my least favourite things
When the day’s done
And the blood’s spun
And I’m feeling glad
I simply remember my least favourite things
And then, very soon, I’m sad
Long waiting times to be seen in outpatients
Early requests for repeat stupefacients
Headlines inflating a GP’s earnings
These are a few of my least favourite things
Busy on call days with patients too numerous
MPs who don’t know their glutes from their humerus
Fitted Mirenas with no sign of strings
These are a few of my least favourite things
Lies about lazy GPs in the papers
Flatulent folk with their foul smelling vapours
Replacing PVC pessary rings
These are a few of my least favourite things
When the week ends
And I’m with friends
And I’m feeling high
I simply remember my least favourite things
And then I begin to cry
After Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers
For more song adaptations and woeful attempts at poetry, all with a GP flavour, please follow the links below:
To read ‘My Most Favourite Things’, click here
To read ‘Baggy White Coats’, click here
To read ‘If’, click here
To read ‘I am the very model of a General Practitioner’, click here
To read ‘A Hard Year For us All’, click here
To read ‘What a wonderful job this can be’, click here
To read ‘On Call Days and Mondays’, click here
To read ‘Yesteryear’, click here
To read ‘GPs – Do You Remember?’, click here
To read ‘Spare me a doctor’, click here
To read ‘I knew a Man’, click here
To read ‘Room Enough’, click here
To read ‘Old Hands’, click here
To read ‘I’ve got a little list’, click here
To read ‘Summertime’, click here
To read ‘GP Kicks’, click here
To read ‘How the grinch and Covid-19 stole General Practice’s Christmas’, click here
To read ‘’Twas the week bedore Christmas – 2020’, click here
Some musings 
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