Thanks, Toby.
Edward Aveyard
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Good evening. I have just signed up for this forum. I have been interested in effective altruism, on and off, for about ten years. If you’re wondering why I have not been more focused in my long-term attention, I keep getting distracted in whether I really believe in socialism or Quakerism or whatever. I like the philosophy behind things. When I lived in London, I attended events fairly regularly. When I moved back to the Leeds area, I let this drop.
I am a middle-ranking civil service in Britain. I have come to the conclusion that I’ve not done as well as I could have done with my career, which is probably because I spend too much time reading and thinking, and not enough time doing.
I am hoping that engagement with this forum will give me a sense of community and spur me on to do more good work in the real world.
Across countries, it varies greatly how many patients a General Practitioner sees each day. Here in Britain, the British Medical Association has threatened to limit the number of patients seen per day to 25. For our friends in many other countries, that will sound ridiculous. British doctors are often brief because they have so much to get through and you know how patients complain when you run late.
That doesn’t invalidate the philosophy. However, I’d say that applying it across the country will require a change to how we cram GPs’ schedules full of patients.