A bunch of individuals who are able to see the potential drug dealer and murderer in an infant?
JOIN THE NHS!
No really, today has just been one of those days. I have beyond all odds completed a 13 hour shift in majors and resus, done about a gazillion transfers to the Emergency Assessment Unit, the Observation Ward and the Coronary Care Unit, managed to seem more incompetent than the day before (to a certain doctor that is.... I HATE YOU JB!!!!!), became the object of affection to a vertically challenged Nigerian locum (WHY GOD WHY?????), felt more of a recluse than the previous week.
Apparently the first few months are the worst, you feel like you don't know much but to others you look like you know alot, and as a result they expect you do know and do things you never envisaged in you wildest dreams. You get home knackered and do not by any means want to get within an inch of anything remotely medical. Before you know it you are starting your next shift your anxiety levels have peaked to the maximum and the only thing that will calm you down are some horse tranquilisers...
There are some good points to what I do..... Uhmmm.... Yes..... Ah! Well I have probably managed to bag the only A&E job open to newly qualified nurses in the London area, however, I have found out today that my department aren't accepting newly qualifieds for the nursing posts anymore, I actually broke out in a cold sweat wondering whether I was solely responsible for this amendement to the hospital's recruitment policy, but after careful digging I found that I wasn't.... phew!
The mundanity of working on a ward would have probably driven me to mass murder, this is what I love about A&E: no two days are the same. You learn just about as much about multiple pathologies as you would working on an elderly care ward only its not just the one patient that has 65 different comorbidities that need to be simlutaneously managed.
6 comments:
Well, look at you Dahab! Swimming happily with the rat race like the rest of us!
I hear you mention horse tranquilisers...can you hook a sister up?
God Bless our failing NHS!
Dahab, while I don't work within it, the US medical system defines failure. People around here will gladly take your NHS, bumps and lumps and all.
Oh, and pass me some of that tranquilizer too.
Ladies if I had some horse tranquilisers you think I'd be sharing it let alone even writing this blog of mine?!?!?!?!
Firefly: this NHS of ours may be failing but thank god it's free at the point of usage which brings me to my next point.
Aya: I'm kind of surprised at the fact that the US medical system can be that bad, people have to pay for it but not out of taxes like us, but out of their own pocket, you'd expect it to be that bit better than tax deducted healthcare systems!
Where is the logic?
Dahab, what passes for healthcare here defies all logic and serious undermines the humanity of most. The poor and the elderly are covered under the government for healthcare. To call the quality of care dismal is generous.
Those with insurance like me struggle with deductibles, copayments, being forced to see doctors within the insurance company's network, and the hassle of dealing with bottom feeder agents. The worst nightmare is knowing that if, God forbid, you develop a serious or terminal illness, they will put you through hell to pay for treatment, and may even deny you.
After decades of poor public education and eating at McDonald's, most are too ignorant and stupid to understand that they pay heavy taxes AND are at the mercy of more payments and mistreatment from insurance companies.
I am so moving.
A.A Dahab passing by your blog and must say love the topics you've covered so far:P
Anyways I see you've discussed the ever so wonderful yet dirty no way out NHS of ours ---- But least we forget that its free:)
By the way, heard some seriously distrubing horror stories about the US health care system --- Feel sorry for some them, but I hope to GOD that its not that bad.
Bunch of cynics eh? I don't think I've quite reached that stage yet, I'm in my 2nd year of medical school, and have only had a few weeks experience in hospitals.. and even then somehow the consultants made us feel about 2 inches tall each time we got a question wrong :S Guess I better get used to it?
p.s. come and visit me over at my blog, it's especially for UK sisters :)
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