It takes a brave – or exceptionally healthy – individual to incur the wrath of over half the country’s 180,000 doctors. So Dominic Lawson must have a…… Read more “Oestrogen to Blame for Junior Doctors’ Strike? This #ladydoc Begs to Differ”
Month: January 2016
As a junior doctor, I was touched by the public’s kindness and support for our strike – and I’d like to say thankyou
Under icy skies, our picket line – uncharted, unnerving territory for junior doctors – generated much warmth. A beaming great grandmother pressed steaming hot coffee into my…… Read more “As a junior doctor, I was touched by the public’s kindness and support for our strike – and I’d like to say thankyou”
Don’t tell me that death is a ‘tick box exercise’ for junior doctors – I should know, I see death every day
“Help me, doctor. I’m dying.” A man I’d never met before gripped my hand with desperate force, as though his physical clamp on me might preserve him…… Read more “Don’t tell me that death is a ‘tick box exercise’ for junior doctors – I should know, I see death every day”
As a junior doctor, I have wept in corridors at 5am and held patients as they died. Stop the spin, Jeremy Hunt
My first ever Bank Holiday on-call was very nearly the death of me. In the split second that my eyelids drooped, I crashed my car headlong into…… Read more “As a junior doctor, I have wept in corridors at 5am and held patients as they died. Stop the spin, Jeremy Hunt”
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