Another part time middle aged GP. Another almost apologetic explanation. Another slightly embarrassed colleague. Why is it that so many GPs in their prime seem to be going part time, retiring, or changing direction? This was a generation who selected general practice as their first choice career. They aspired, not to a specialist training, but to a place on one of the most sought after general practice training schemes in the 1980s. There were hundreds of applications to some schemes, and even the least desirable had a ratio of applications to places of 5:1. What happened to these committed high quality doctors? more…