 Working with poor locums
Here's my rant for the day:
At least when following a poor locum you don't actually work with them. I've had the mispleasure of working with a bloody useless locum over the last two days - giving antibiotics out with no advice for instance. But then today was even worse: a script came down the other day for oxycontin 5mg bd and oxynorm 20mg bd (both typed generically). The locum gave the rx out with no questions asked, despite the fact the bd is obviously a bit strange for oxynorm. If he'd bothered to look at the PMR he'd have seen that the patient has been on oxycontin 25mg bd for ages, so it needed checking out.
I only noticed the Rx had been given out when entering the CDs recieved from the wholesaler (the rx had been repeated from the PMR, so we got a box of oxycontin 20mg and 5mg in). I ended up phoning the GP, and of course found out that the Rx had been messed up by the surgery, so got the GP to do a new and correct rx, went down to the surgery to collect it and delivered the correct drugs to the patient.
And to make matters even worse, this locum was so slow it was ridiculous. I would have been better off working by myself. And even more galling is the fact that he's probably made £400 over the two days (8 hrs per day), while muggins here has earnt £315 (9 hrs/day) even though I did all the bloody work. Some locums give the profession a very bad name.
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