| Description Of Item | Dr James Douglas is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He has been working as a GP in Fort William since 1980. He led a project on the Dewar Report in 2012 and gave evidence to the Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine on ‘Historical Perspectives on Rural Medicine’ which was published in 2017. Douglas is also active in Lyme disease research.
This interview took place on 19th February 2021.
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Practice size and equipment
03:10 Fort William
06:38 Working routines and commute
11:10 Challenges
16:05 Medical complaints in Fort William
21:36 Skills needed in remote and rural medicine
24:26 Brexit, COVID, Scottish Independence
28:27 Recruitment and retention
32:47 Support
39:26 Changes to improve provision |