{"id":109,"date":"2007-02-05T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/02\/05\/bmj-3-feb-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T12:15:42","slug":"bmj-3-feb-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/02\/05\/bmj-3-feb-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ 3 Feb 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>What is your advice to young doctors starting out on a generalist career? Get the MRCP, for a start \u2013 that guarantees class. Train for general practice, if you can endure the indignities \u2013 that guarantees money (for the present). <!--more-->And then, perhaps, become an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7587\/218\">acute physician<\/a>, because, if this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7587\/218\">editorial <\/a>is to be believed, that guarantees interest. You will just do acute medical takes, and then hand the patients over to a subspecialist, who will do all the boring stuff and the long-term follow-up. <\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Someone I love<strong> <\/strong>very dearly is over 80 and has advanced breast cancer. Well over two years ago, she elbowed past me to pay a restaurant bill, declaring (with a grin), \u201cI\u2019m the one with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/334\/7587\/239\">terminal illness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your advice to young doctors starting out on a generalist career? Get the MRCP, for a start \u2013 that guarantees class. Train for general practice, if you can endure the indignities \u2013 that guarantees money (for the present). [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/02\/05\/bmj-3-feb-2007\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}