GP sheltering since covid running London marathon

[justasking111]

OH raging that our GP working from home since March last year is running the London marathon today is he being unreasonable. He's spitting feathers here. This is the senior partner owner of the building practice

What do you think? I think people shielding need to make decisions about what they do. They are going to prioritise the things that are really important to them. Better than doing nothing at all. But from the outside it can look a bit contradictory.

So anyone working from home isn't allowed to go out at all?

Haha not worried about mixing when it’s a fun activity then?!

Chances of catching Covid outdoors is so slim. Very different to catching it off a patient in a small consulting room.

Why does this matter? Are there not other GPs you can see face to face?

It's very different running outside to sitting in a small consulting room with unwell people who may or may not have covid.

Ridiculous. My friend is complaining after having a paid 18 months off due to "shielding" that she has to go back to work next week, yet she was away on city breaks for most of August! As a homeworker who's been doing it for 10 years, I'm concerned that businesses are going to take us even less seriously now than before, because of the shirkers who have been taking the piss during covid.

Of course he is being unreasonable.

Your GP is working from home, because when seeing 30+ patients a day, it just one of them had covid they could potentially infect all of the other patients. Working from home isn't always to just protect the GP, it's to protect the CEV patients they would have otherwise been in contact with.

Working from home does not mean you have to be a hermit. They are allowed to go out and exercise! To have a social life, go to the shops and do what they would like.

Your OH needs to get a grip.

The gps were FTF yesterday for the first time en masse to administer the flu jab. The covid jabs were all done by nurses. He clocked that as well hence his ire

Your OH needs to do 2 things:

1. Get a grip
2. Get himself a drink so he’s not spitting feathers anymore, the poor lamb.

Can your OH tell the difference between being in an open outdoor space and being in an enclosed space with a succession of people some of whom are likely to be unwell with Covid?

Has he been shielding or just working from home as practice policy?

Big difference.

I agree with your husband. If they were in a shop I'm sure your husband won't be upset but that is not what they are doing. Running a marathon is very different, he will be in a huge group of people without masks. I don't see how it's to dangerous to go to work but it's not to run a marathon. He is using that as an excuse not to go to work!

He has also presumably been in training being out everyday for months

Has he been personally monitoring what this GP does with CCTV at all times?

No?

Well then he can keep his thoughts to himself really can't he.

GPs have been working flat out throughout the pandemic, doing telephone consults, video consults, and face to face where necessary which TBH isn't most of them - as well as dealling with all the fallout from people not being seen in hospital clinics.

The GP hasn't been lounging around baking banana bread for the whole of lockdown FFS.

Is it just this one GP that has been WFH or the whole practice?

I'll assume the whole practice which isn't so much to protect the GPS as to protect the vulnerable patients that they see.

They don't want CEV or otherwise vulnerable patients sitting in waiting rooms with other ill folks (some of whom, without doubt, would have had live covid). Those ill folks spreading all sorts of germs about which may either infect the CEV folk with covid or give them other germs which end up with them being admitted to hospitals, where again, their risk of catching covid is much higher than is they were at home.

I'd hazard a guess that there is a higher risk of catching covid in a full GP surgery, than outside exercising.

@justasking111

The gps were FTF yesterday for the first time en masse to administer the flu jab. The covid jabs were all done by nurses. He clocked that as well hence his ire

YABU about this part - nurses can easily give jabs - it does not require a doctor. I would imagine that the doctors were doing telephone consultations etc, (or even god forbid seeing the odd patient in person at the time). The vaccination programme was in full swing for months - would you like it if there had not even been a telephone consultation available with a doctor for a year?

God imagine doing 6 years of Medical School, however many years of shift work in A and E, on the wards, in theatre, to have people get annoyed when you dare to have a life outside of your profession.

@ZoBo123

He has also presumably been in training being out everyday for months

Instead of locked inside the surgery where he belongs? He's a person! With a very difficult, full on job that people's lives depend on! Is he not allowed a minute of downtime to focus on his own physical health?

Has your OH been monitoring what this GP is actually doing? As in he owns for certain he is not going in and doing any F2F at all ?
Or is he just jumping on the daily mail band wagon of lazy arse GP’s and slagging him off when he has no clue what arrangement is going on inside the practice
Because in order to meet with covid restrictions some large practices with smaller premises have had some GP work from home doing calls / admin and others in doing all the f2f
This can be arranged on a rota but some GP chose f2f as preference and others prefer phone calls .
Another local practice to us told their senior partner to work from ho eas he was higher risk than them and they did all f2f . Because they worked as a team and recognised the risk for him and value of him as a person without dying from covid

Love how people are saying "outdoors exercising" like he's gone for a jog by himself and not with 50,000 other people. It's definitely a curious decision on his behalf. I find it quite curious that a GP is CEV anyway, must be a generally quite an uneasy profession, covid aside.

The covid jabs were all done by nurses. He clocked that as well hence his ire

Why would GPs be doing the jabs? It's standard that nurses do that.

our GP working from home since March last year is running the London marathon today

How on earth would you know that he's only ever worked from home? Surely it's just that they triage on the phone like most practices and only see people in person if necessary? If he is shielding then presumably he's CEV, in which case presumably the lower risk staff are taking FTF indoor appointments.

The reasons he's CEV may not prevent him from doing a marathon.

Doesn’t ‘spitting feathers’ mean he’s thirsty? Genuine question

@ReeseWitherfork

Love how people are saying "outdoors exercising" like he's gone for a jog by himself and not with 50,000 other people. It's definitely a curious decision on his behalf. I find it quite curious that a GP is CEV anyway, must be a generally quite an uneasy profession, covid aside.

Where has OP said he is CEV?