I.III.VI JOURNAL ENTRIES Journal entries from my rotation in general medicine: We’re on patient 12 out of a long list of 23 to review on the wards when Dr Sugar gets a call that a twenty-something-year-old guy who was admitted after taking a cocaine overdose was unstable. We speed-walk to the other side of the hospital and find the unconscious […]
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Foundation Year 1 , Neurology
Desensitised
I.II.II DESENSITISED It was during my time in neuro that I realised I was not the same person I had been at the start. I never thought I could end up so jaded, so robotic, so heartless. At one point, I found myself almost intolerant and oblivious to other people’s woes. It comes with the job, most people would say. […]
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Foundation Year 1 , Neurology
Neurology – First Day
I.II.I FIRST DAY My first rotation had come and gone. On my last day, it felt almost surreal leaving the ward. The surgical department had truly become my home. I’d spent the better part of three months wandering those halls, making idle chit-chat with the staff, working my ass off. I’d built a life there, and now I had to […]