GPs and surgeons volunteering at Olympics left dumbstruck

[Northerner]

Medically-qualified volunteers at the Olympics including GPs, surgeons and dentists have been forced to sit through a ?surreal' training session - in how to prescribe paracetamol.

Hundreds of GPs and other doctors have volunteered as part of the Games' medical team, as part of a competitive application process.
But doctors were left dumbstruck when a recent training session covered how to prescribe paracetamol, after clinic managers were told they must have a paracetamol prescribing policy in place and must demonstrate that all staff had been trained in the procedure.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...k-by-training-in-how-to-prescribe-paracetamol

 

[slipper]

and very likely had to fill in a risk assessment form afterwards.

Modern life is a bad sad i think, glad I had my "youf" when I did.🙂

 

[Copepod]

Big deal - at the session I attended, the paracetamol part took less than 5 minutes out of 5 hours, and was preceeded by admission by the trainer, a medical doctor, that it was just a formality.