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Working the night shift
Author(s) -
Leathers Joanne
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.28.2.100
Subject(s) - working life , working hours , schedule , night work , working time , work (physics) , gerontology , medicine , management , engineering , shift work , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , labour economics , quality (philosophy) , economics
BY 2002, Joanne Leathers had been qualified for several years, and was working in a busy mixed practice. But disillusionment was creeping in: a gruelling work schedule seemed to leave no time for a social life or outside pursuits. She decided a change was needed. Here, she describes her new life working in an out‐of‐hours emergency clinic.