Helen Salisbury: Playing to our strengths

Way back in the last century when I was a newly qualified doctor, I spent a lot of my time doing what we called scut work. This was the boring, repetitive, relatively unskilled work required to keep the ward running, tasks such as filling in forms and tracking down x rays. It made some sort of sense as we were definitely the lowest paid staff in the hospital, especially at weekends. It also contributed to the very long hours and sleep deprivation suffered by my generation of junior doctors.Now at the other end of my career, I still find myself in the surgery late into the evening, glued to my computer screen long after the last patient has left and the cleaners have been and gone. I’ve recently, belatedly, been analysing the tasks I do and thinking about what’s best done by me and what I can delegate.In an effort…
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