I do not miss COVID-19 lockdowns, apart from the way people behaved about matters of personal hygiene.
I do not miss COVID-19 lockdowns. I could rarely pinch the cheeks of my middle-aged children or go for a walk on the beach. Mind you, I’m kind of locked-down now, glued to the Fox sisters doing it for themselves, their mum … and me. But at least that’s from choice.miss – the way people behaved about matters of personal hygiene. Social distancing. We covered our coughs. We turned when sneezing. And, hallelujah, we washed our hands.
What my legendary local GP described was the influx of patients with flu, colds, RSV, pneumonia and unexplained coughing and sneezing. And that was just in our household alone! I joke . Adrian Esterman, professor and chair of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of South Australia, says even that’s increased. Apparently we are due for an outbreak every three to seven years.
Graeme Horton practises as a GP in Newcastle. More importantly, he’s the head of general practice and primary care at what I would describe as the most innovative medical school in the nation, the University of Newcastle. Remember, these were the folks who instituted interviews for prospective students so we would actually get GPs who could talk to patients.
All this would be fine if we had enough GPs who could work as temps . But we don’t have enough GPs either because medical students don’t really want to sign up for what is often reported as hugely long hours and terrible pay. No one writes about the rewards, which are many.“The federal government needs to take urgent action on Medicare rebate indexation, which has languished since the ’80s,” Horton says. Yep.
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