Where I am currently living, there is a partial lockdown.
No more meals outside; just take-away food.
Much angst about job losses and income security amongst some people; I guess we are fortunate to be employed. I echo a phrase from my old mentor “without patients; we would be out of a job…”
It has been > 1 year since I have updated this blog.
I chose to keep this blog open as a source / repository for my future trainees / children.
I do wonder at times ; is there more to life than medicine itself ?
Should I embrace this wellness concept ? …
ON a more serious note; I have been watching lots of Radiopaedia lectures (subscribed) to some of them. GOLD !
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I reminisce when life was slightly simpler when I was a registrar…
I remember 2013; I was a freshly minted registrar at a place called Ipswich. Literally felt like I was thrown in a deep end. Fantastic acute medicine; and very steep learning curve.
I struggled to pass the primary exams then (I still hold resentment at a previous workplace in 2012 where I was not given enough leave)
But my struggle came down to focus.
I was fortunate enough to pass these exams by the skin of my teeth thanks to the amazing tutelage and assistance from the people then.
Ipswich has a very fond place in my heart.
My transfer of an intubated patient with multi-organ failure (on inotropes and all that jazz) to a tertiary centre… (which then became many…)
My first diagnosis of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy !
My foray into lung ultrasound.
My few neonatal resuscitations !
Now as a consultant I wonder how to pass on the wonder and expectations I have on the trainees… is it too much to expect a higher standard or enthusiasm ?
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