Make an appointment … with love.
In order to claw back members the RACGP has become a learning hub and a lonely hearts dating site with the tag line: “For all your CPD and soulmate needs”.
Some doctors have already posted on the site hoping to meet that special someone:
When I’m not at work complaining about work, I’m at home, complaining about work. And drinking. If anyone out there allows the evil octopus of general practice to strangle all aspects of their daily life then let me know as we may be kindred spirits. I also own my own car.
Dr J.B.S. Haldane
I’ll come right out and say it, I just want someone to talk to. Being cooped up all day in a windowless room seeing a sorry stream of patients who only want to talk about themselves has destroyed my mind. On my solitary evening walks I now take a stencil of Andre the Giant with me and spraypaint it on every flat, dry surface I come across.
Dr V. Woolf
Committed, compassionate, caring and something else beginning with C. (Alliteration has never been my strong point). I enjoy nights out, nights in, fine dining, foreign travel, cinema and curling up with a good book. Oh yes that fourth C is for cliché.
Dr M. Shelley
I’m always late home because I am passionate about delivering high-quality health care to my patients. I am also passionate about the word passionate and love the sound of my own voice. In my spare time I attend educational events, listen to medical podcasts and involve myself in peer group learning. The thought of 50 hours of CPD every year gives me the horn. I also enjoy reading the MJA, correcting their grammar mistakes and posting them back to them. Nothing turns a woman on more than pedantry. Favourite books: The Big Book of Grammar and Divorce Courts for Dummies.
Dr J.G. Ballard
Four divorces, nine children and a short prison stretch later and I’ve finally worked out what’s going wrong. Just to be clear the prison stretch was for something that was totally not my fault but I did still manage to hang on to my AHPRA registration. Phew! I own an African grey parrot called Doris who knows, or should I say knew, over 4000 words and is the sole reason I ended up in prison. “Look in the basement,” the bird kept saying – well, the cage is empty now my feathery friend! And so is my heart. Contact me.
Dr A.A. Milne
In my spare time I like to dress up as an orc and re-enact battles from Lord of the Rings. I prefer intelligent women on the short side. My dream woman is probably a mixture of Arwen the elf and Gimli the dwarf. By that I mean a short attractive woman rather than a tall woman with a long ginger beard. Favourite film: Lord of the Rings; favourite book: Lord of the Rings, favourite TV show: Lord of the Rings; favourite holidays: long hikes into active volcanoes. I do not even find the notion of a big black rider chasing Frodo’s ring remotely funny. In fact it is sacrilege.
Dr J.R.R. Tolkien
Newly qualified GP looking for full-time GP so I can become a part-time GP.
Dr E. Brontë
