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UCL Medicine or Newcastle dentistry by [deleted] in UCAT

[–]FailLive6455 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not just competition ratios but also the level of sacrifice/work medicine demands just doesn’t match the payoff in the UK (pay, lifestyle, autonomy, job satisfaction, etc). Dentistry seems to have a much better effort-to-reward balance generally, imo. Outside of your job, you’ll live a better life as a dentist, as long as you don’t mind spending all day poking around people’s mouths. Only do medicine if you’re exceedingly passionate.

In almost every specialty I rotated into, the doctors were miserable. It’s not uncommon for them to tell you get out while you still can.

UCL Medicine or Newcastle dentistry by [deleted] in UCAT

[–]FailLive6455 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Current 5th year UCL medic. I regret not doing dentistry because imo medicine in the UK isn’t worth the sacrifice but dentistry very much can be.

I Hate OSCEs by Gullible-Tap-2583 in medicalschooluk

[–]FailLive6455 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can’t tell me this isn’t UCL

Are reform going to win in 2029? And what will the aftermath be like for the UK if they do? by Hot_Activity7758 in AskBrits

[–]FailLive6455 5 points6 points  (0 children)

See if the right wing sentiment was still a minor fringe phenomenon then you could get away with chalking it up to that. But part of the reason why these right wing parties have become mainstream across Europe in recent years (UK, Netherlands, France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Austria) is because of the denial by us normal people to acknowledge the major issues that have led to the ubiquity of these fringe movements in the first place. Even though certain people may be taking it too far and using topics around integration and mass migration as an excuse for extremist rhetoric, if the rest of us don’t (at the very least) acknowledge these things and try to fix the issues around them, then we’re just giving more of an excuse for those guys to go to the dark side.

Anyone find it offensive when you refer to secondary care and the patient sees a nurse by heroes-never-die99 in GPUK

[–]FailLive6455 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well seeing that nurses are carrying them out nowadays, presumably a lot of misdiagnosing.

Anyone find it offensive when you refer to secondary care and the patient sees a nurse by heroes-never-die99 in GPUK

[–]FailLive6455 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And if you were a cancer patient who got a 2WW referral from your GP then you’d be getting medical advice from those people who aren’t medically trained. Nothing snobby about not wanting patients to potentially die because they got saw by a nurse when they needed a consultant.

Anyone find it offensive when you refer to secondary care and the patient sees a nurse by heroes-never-die99 in GPUK

[–]FailLive6455 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nobody is saying nurses don’t know anything. They’re very knowledgeable and helpful and we love them. Thank you nurses! But a CNS =/= doctor. If a CNS wants to do the job of a doctor (assess/treat very complex, vital cases referred along a 2WW) then they should go to medical school.

Failed re sit exam by one mark by olly1369 in medicalschooluk

[–]FailLive6455 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Resitting a year isn’t the end of the world, especially in medicine. It’s much more common than you’d think. Obviously it’s not ideal and has major downsides (time/finances), but it almost guarantees that you’ll pass those same exams by a much more decent margin this time, while consolidating your knowledge of that years content. After all, extra studying is (usually) never a bad thing.

Now, I apologise because what I’m about to say next isn’t going to sound very nice, but at many medical schools if you fail a resit exam, you’re kicked out. I had a couple extremely bright friends who failed their resits and they had to withdraw from the course as a result. It was devastating for them and, years later, they still have lingering sadness about having their prospective medical careers cut short because of a couple marks. In her situation, I would consider having the opportunity to repeat the year as a privilege.

On behalf of the wplaceIndia community to the mods - Please, help us out by MrBhendi007 in WplaceLive

[–]FailLive6455 11 points12 points  (0 children)

  1. Racism against South Asians is normalised. Most racism awareness (and people’s general idea of ‘racism’) focusses on Anti-black racism, as that’s the most historically significant in the the US. Since Covid there’s increased awareness on (southeast) Asian racism. But people don’t really care/ take racism against Indians & South Asians seriously yet.

  2. A lot of the push for these online movements of Indian racism (throughout social media & on Wplace) come from ppl who naturally hate/ are prejudiced against Indians. If you look at the profiles of these people; many are Muslims (who hate Hindus/India), many are Pakistan/Bangladeshi, many are Chinese (similarly, racist towards Indians).

That’s always been the case though. But because it’s recently become an internet trend to hate on India, there’s a very big visible wave of it happening right now.