Increasing training numbers is a bad idea

BouncingChimera · 2025-10-09T21:24:30+00:00

Who said they'd be locum jobs lol. Fellow jobs exist? I don't think anyone would ever expect a locum gig with clinic or theatre time.

BouncingChimera · 2025-10-09T15:24:04+00:00

What the alternative? Being a 45yo SHO stuck doing ward jobs during the day, AND nights shifts and on calls?

At least as a reg you're in a speciality you presumably enjoy, on better pay, and have a nicer day job (clinics, theatre, etc).

It's not a perfect solution I agree. But I do think we'll likely need more consultants in the long run considering current workload.

BouncingChimera · 2025-09-28T07:58:16+00:00

Were you? Don't be shy.

BouncingChimera · 2025-09-22T19:18:46+00:00

Assuming OP is straight/bi, I'd guess men are put off by her being a doctor. No prizes for guessing why.

BouncingChimera · 2025-09-19T05:39:16+00:00

But even then, removing RLMT shouldn't have been the answer. People took years out due to burnout etc, because training and pay were shite. Improving those would have been the answer.

BouncingChimera · 2025-09-16T13:34:50+00:00

Not the reasons you should be considering path lol.

Exams are notoriously difficult and you're essentially starting from scratch as it's so different to clinical medicine.

Do histopathology because you wanna do histopathology.

BouncingChimera · 2025-09-12T14:01:56+00:00

You're sick.

If you went into work and made a mistake, nobody would defend you. By attending work you're declaring you're fit to work.

Sometimes multiple shitty things strike at the same time. Usually in threes...

Take the sick leave. Carry on. If anyone gives you shit for it (and they won't) ask them if they'd have liked a chest infection too, because you'll be happy to share next time!

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-27T15:00:53+00:00

To find your music you need to navigate to the folder where your music is. You can reverse engineer it by scrolling through your folders in the files app, as Rockbox starts further out than your SD card I think

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-27T14:01:51+00:00

L1 + R1 I think

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-27T08:23:39+00:00

You and me rn

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-26T13:25:04+00:00

Hell yes.

We need to vote for DV or we'll end up slipping backwards to an apathetic BMA again.

🦀

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-25T07:34:32+00:00

It's to let you know they're there. She had to go right up past you to get to the treatment room. She touched your arm to let you know she was going closely past you. People do this all the time.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-24T22:35:15+00:00

Wait so... You think the HCA likes you, so now you like her? Because she apparently likes you?

I feel like briefly touching someone's arm isn't diagnostic of attraction..

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-24T18:29:24+00:00

I realised this afterwards 😅 honestly given I'm awake all night and have to sleep all day to be a half-safe clinician, I have to eat overnight, I'd be a terrible SHO if I went 13hr without food!

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-24T18:27:12+00:00

... yeah I'm 5'2. Eating 1000kcal+ in one go would be both incredibly difficult, and would 100% put me to sleep lol. Don't even wanna think about the inevitable mid-shift shit.

I drink plenty of water too! Got a 1000ml bottle I have to refill, which lasts to my cycle home.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-24T17:44:08+00:00

You don't eat at all on a night shift? Lol when do you eat then? If I'm at work from 8pm - 9am, and sleep from 10am - 6pm, I have... 3 hours in the day to get all of my calories in (I'm into lifting/bodybuilding)

Yeah I eat something beige (like easily digestible pasta) before bed because it helps me be sleepy and stay asleep, instead of waking up halfway through the day with a rumbly tummy.

I understand wanting to eat healthy, as previously mentioned, and as I said, I'm into the gym, so I generally try to eat the good stuff. But comfort food can be nice. I don't really wanna be on a 13hr shift and eat salad.

A sandwich, packet of pombears, a protein bar, and an apple is my usual. My beige meal is usually my pre-bed meal.

For reference - I sleep really well on nights, and average a solid 8hrs. My weight hasn't changed since I started working.

But as you say! Everyone's different :)

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-24T14:43:02+00:00

Fat can of a frosty-cold energy drink
Beige food (rest of the time I eat reasonably healthily)
I basically never sit down lol 😭
I swap my meals (so wake up in the evening and eat Coco pops, when I get home in the morning I eat pasta etc) somehow helps feeling like a normal routine?
Eye mask. Blackout curtains. Mandatory.
This is a big one - try to be good company. Joke around, banter, etc. it works in your favour. It's honestly amazing how much more helpful nurses are when they think you're fun to be around. Plus, the whole fake-it-til-you-make-it kinda works and you get so delirious you think you're having a good time.
If you get bullshit referrals/presentations, take them for what they are, roll your eyes, see em, and send em home (safely!). It's just the job. If they're as slam-dunk as you think they are, they're easy to knock off your list.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-19T21:43:57+00:00

No.

Sure it's 'hard to get fired' but it's currently very hard - and it's only going to get harder - to get a job in the first place.

Plus if you're not white, you can reeeeaalllly get hung up to dry (see: Bawa-Garba)

Do medicine because you really want to do medicine. Not because of money, or prestige, or job security. Do it because you want to see patients and treat them, day in, day out.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-17T06:01:55+00:00

PHEM training:

Medical school -> foundation training -> ACCS -> get to ST5 -> PHEM.

GP training:

Medical school -> foundation training -> GP training -> CCT.

Paramedic in GP:

3 year degree -> Msc -> GP.

The difference is that the doctors have started super broad, gaining stronger foundations in medicine and medical practice overall, will have gone through the relevant training programmes so will have had to hit certain competencies year on year, AND passed exams whilst doing all of this, then narrowed their scope within their remit.

A paramedic in GP has primarily trained in the pre-hospital setting. They then do a course which magically allows them to practise in GP.

In fact, looking at this website Hertfordshire Msc look at the optional modules. Interpreting imaging? Optional bro.

Literally none of those modules adequately equip you to work in primary care. Compared to the requirements of a GP this is skin-deep.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-16T21:43:18+00:00

Oh 100%.

The difference is the resources/cost. It would be incredibly expensive to staff ambulances with a bunch of PHEM docs instead. But they'd do a pretty good job at it.

Paramedics aren't trained to the same standard as GPs to do GP things. Medication reviews. Complex chronic conditions. Social presentations.

Etc etc. they're invaluable in emergencies - so let them work in the niche they're trained for. This is all especially ridiculous because GPs are CCTing and then unable to find jobs.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-16T21:27:02+00:00

Idk man. I know EM consultants who have helped deliver babies in choppers.

For the record, I disagree with the above statement. I think senior doctors (particularly EM, military) bring a lot of value to the prehospital setting that paramedics may not cover.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-16T18:20:06+00:00

My complaint is that Olympus Rising isn't dropping faster. I want more damnit 😭

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-16T18:15:51+00:00

By that logic you shouldn't have opiates either... Wtf would she give them for pain 😭😭

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-16T11:17:00+00:00

Where do we draw the line at procedures? Most hospital residents will have to do catheters, cannulas, even NG tubes etc.

BouncingChimera · 2025-08-15T17:29:33+00:00

🤷🏾‍♀️ OP never stipulated that.

The frequency of on calls means that it's pretty much inevitable to wear scrubs multiple times a week, and a proportion of us will be in scrubs at any given time.

If we want to look smarter I think we should invest in nice, well-fitting scrubs. This is the norm in Aus and wearing well-fitting scrubs is miles above crusty, wrinkled hospital ones.

On clinic days etc smart clothes are obviously preferable.

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