It’s that time of the year again: stroppy diktats from medical staffing about not working one minute past 5pm; developing RSI from scribbling in tiny boxes; and testing the very limits of memory (and probity) in recalling exactly when you had that ‘natural break’ the Friday before last…yes, ’tis the season of monitoring junior doctors’ […]
Category: Junior doctors
Zarrin Shaikh: Small achievable targets
Happy new year all! Having spent every Christmas or New Year’s Eve since qualifying on call, I was consumed with guilt when I suggested to my supervisors that I was contemplating taking two entire weeks off. […]
No New Year’s resolutions for Mark Lewis
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good festive season and is not feeling too bloated with over-indulgence! […]
Zarrin Shaikh’s first blog
It’s hard to discuss this year without mentioning Modernising Medical Careers. I was one of the unlucky members of “the lost tribe” that were stung very badly. I’m a clinical research fellow working at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Technically I’ve completed 1 and a half years as a cardiology registrar (LAT), and my intended specialty […]
Seasonal cheer (Mark Lewis)
Christmas, a time for giving and receiving, or of course, for night shifts. […]
Mark Lewis’s first blog
Having been asked to write a blog relevant to junior doctors I must say I was a bit stuck when it came to actually writing anything down—am I supposed to try and be funny or serious? I’m 27, graduated in 2004, and the offical title of my post is “Junior Clinical Fellow in General Surgery […]