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A Season in Hell (opens the original)
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I read a lot of kind, inspirational posts for new FY1s on changeover day with wise advice on finding your people and being compassionate towards yourself. They all felt very heartwarming to read and so I picked up my pen and I set out to write my own. Quickly I realised my version would have young starters in medicine resigning and running for a life in Financial Services before they had even sat through the teaching session on which fire extinguisher to use. My piece was pretty much unpublishab
Can't stay in medicine and can't leave? (opens the original)
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“You can’t sort them out,” she said. “There isn’t time. Patients have become so complex.”I could hear the frustration in her voice, the heaviness behind it all.“I still do locums,” she continued, “but you can’t do proper medicine.”She was semi-retired, one foot in, one foot out. My curiosity piqued. “What’s important to you right now?”“Oh, I want to spend time with my grandchildren.” Her face lit briefly, light of its own in the gloom of a morning conference room. People were shuffling back and
You Can Do the Job Well and Still Feel Nothing (opens the original)
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I once ran a workshop for a group of senior doctors on identifying their work values. One of the questions was to get into groups and talk about a memory of something that brought them alive at work. I stood there, at the wooden lectern, fiddling with my Mac that had inevitably not properly connected to the projector, and watched with a heavy heart as I saw an audience of blank faces. It was the after-lunch slot following a hot meal, and they looked like they needed a YouTube video that counted
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