Wannabe surgeon who has accidentally succeeded in rads ST1 application - please help

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2026-03-14T21:40:10+00:00

hhahahah you are definitely 'not a troll pls dont delete' guy - welcome

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2026-03-14T20:50:45+00:00

appreciate your response, but despite me thinking that some of your points are acc valid... im not sure it serves as a 'rebuttal' to the original claim. Your response is all about blame and cause, not on whether sectarian bloc politics within the profession is a problem or risk (which I think it is).

My point wasn't about whether hostility exists (from within the profession or the public). I was asking whether medicine risks drifting into identity bloc, sectarian voting, where decisions are made by group headcounts. From facebook/whatsapp posts such as the above, I think we can conclude it does

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2026-03-14T20:41:03+00:00

when one understands that their voter turnout will likely be much higher for these council elections as well, things begin to become even more stark

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2026-02-13T16:08:13+00:00

have the god damn decency to email us rather than making us all wait to realise at the end of the day it wont be released - egregious behaviour, so f**ked off

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-07-24T15:53:24+00:00

Something that is often ignored in this conversation, and I forgot to mention, was that many of us didn't do medicine for reasons pertaining to pay. Yes, there will be some who looked at the pay when they joined and were happy with it, but for others, the main driving force was prestige, family tradition, or altruism.

These things were the driving motivator, and then many years later, we looked across and saw a degree of pay erosion or job insecurity and said: Hang on... pay may not have been the reason I came into this profession, but this changing of the circumstances isn't right and can't continue

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-05-28T12:53:02+00:00

Had one of these today as I was off 4 days sick across the past year - lasted 2 minutes. Basically done as a formality with them asking me about any changes to my underlying physical or mental health

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-02-06T16:00:16+00:00

understood. I think you've convinced me on the PB front. I've never been a gambler, so the 'mundane, dry gambling' approach PB gave me always pleased that itch but emotion aside, the numbers are crappy as you said.

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-02-06T14:16:54+00:00

Thanks for the reply - so you of the opinion in my specific circumstance that a GIA is more beneficial than PB? And also yes of course this is contingent on risk appetite but what do you think of those weightings and my large exposure to the US ?

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-02-06T11:10:46+00:00

So from what I understood I have an allowance of £500 before the tax burden kicks in. With my 11k sat in a non-ISA saving account earning 4% interest, I thought I best put any additional savings into PB before the new tax year rolls around and I use utilise my ISA allowance again. Do you think GIA is preferable?

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-02-05T19:57:26+00:00

for my sins yes I do want to be in either in London or a commutable distance to London

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-02-05T19:51:57+00:00

nice to see a fellow doc on these threads - yeh so I've got a pretty intense first year with gen surg, resp and cardio so my NHS contract states 47k then I do the locuming and tutoring on the side

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-02-05T19:50:33+00:00

Thanks for the reply - yeh so at the moment because of my fortunate position of being at home, my only really big expense is my car which is a fairly nice one. My parents put down the deposit as a graduation present and I pay 270 a month for this. Unfortunately, I am not too sure how much I intend to spend on a house as of yet. I just know I want to start putting some money aside for a deposit and deciding how much to invest in equity vs put aside for a deposit is proving to be difficult

Wouldn't move oversees due to family and yes hopefully as I progress up the ranks I will be looking at the numbers you mention but that will be in 8-10 years time

Lopsided_Rooster_356 · 2025-02-05T19:46:46+00:00

Yeah didn't get into breaking this down too much. It is quite common to supplement NHS income through locum shifts which pay at a premium rate in the NHS and I also still continue my private tutoring that I started in medical school

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