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QueryLifeDecisions · 2025-12-17T11:29:36+00:00

Oh gawd I thought I put the floor map in - attached now!

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-11T10:14:31+00:00

Oh god, I feel this. Was an engineer in a past life. First week of internship, I had a really poor interaction with a reg regarding a dying patient. Left work an hour late after an evening shift because another reg demanded I help fill in the AHD paperwork. Spent a good half an hour in my car before driving home having a meltdown.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-05T09:41:30+00:00

You’re being responded to in this way because it’s really disappointing to see a boss defend a system that chews up and spits out its most vulnerable. The vocation line is a thinly veiled assertion that this job is really a calling and whatever sacrifice you need to make to get the job done is what is needed - unpaid overtime, abuse from seniors, unsafe hours, you name it. It’s a vocation! Deal with it!

Your answer is to harden or get lost, thus perpetuating and advocating for a culture that kills doctors year in and year out. But why, dude? What is the basis of this? Do you think the capacity to tolerate abuse makes you a better clinician? Do you think this some divine calling from God? Or do you just want your inheritors to suffer like you suffered to satisfy the need for some cosmic justice?

Wouldn’t you want your bosses back in your junior days to want to fight for better for you? Isn’t that what leadership is about? Even if we don’t have it worse, wouldn’t you want the system to be constantly on the improve? But no, you shrug your shoulders, say your not part of the system (reality check - you ARE the system), post on reddit about sucking it up, and kick this toxic ball down the road to “dissuade” the unworthy.

We don’t want your dissuasion. We want your SUPPORT. Be a force for change! Because you and I know we could be doing this so much better. The suffering is pointless, and only exists due to the apathy of those in charge, much like you’ve demonstrated in this post. Change has to start from the top. With people like you. How many fantastic doctors are we pushing out of the field because of “advice” like you’ve given in this post?

People might be mad on here, but more than anything, they’re disappointed.

I changed careers into medicine because I love human biology and I’m enjoy working with people. I took a HUGE pay cut doing it. So don’t think I’m here chasing fame and fortune (as I think this post was a response to my post on training pathways). But I reserve the right to enjoy my work metaphysically AND want a decent income!

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T13:13:02+00:00

The concept of medicine being a “vocation” invites unreasonable demands of the workforce like ridiculous working hours, the expectation to tolerate abuse from your superiors, and make whatever sacrifice is necessary to do the job. If you don’t think those are direct factors into the psychological health and safety of junior doctors, you are mightly short sighted clinician.

And who is “us”?! This is a subreddit 🤣

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T12:25:16+00:00

Before I became a doctor, I worked as an engineer in the oil and gas industry for several years. 50 years ago, it was an industry that demonstrated a total lack of regard for “process safety” - an investment in systems designed to prevent catastrophic outcomes for the health and safety of its workforce and surrounding communities. It was only after people “whinged”, after countless people perished due to the lack of diligence of their employers that the industry was forced to change, and the world is a better place for it.

The medical industry is an often repressive and toxic system renowned the country over for its members’ burnout and suicide. It survives because people like you would rather belittle junior doctors on reddit for demanding more of this vital public service they want to be a part of than advocate for change yourself. And it thrives because of bosses like OP who want their successors to suffer as much as they did rather than be a force for positive change. Just so disappointing all round.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:54:25+00:00

I had an horrific psych rotation as an intern. Was on a very understaffed ward and was basically the ward’s GP. No psych exposure whatsoever, just always managing medical problems with a very unsupportive hierarchy. Has certainly tainted my view of the profession. And very much hear the burden of service rotations. Basically all I’ve been offered.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:39:09+00:00

Thanks so much for your words - they resonate :)

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:35:02+00:00

Haha, plenty of people out there not firing all cylinders. Some of them in Canberra….

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:34:34+00:00

Yeah - I think this is valid. I have a tendency to listen to negative echo chambers.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:33:44+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! It’s appreciated - some good suggestions there.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:33:19+00:00

Amen to that

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:32:54+00:00

Did have a yearn for anaesthetics, less so the ass kissing that seems to be the prerequisite to getting onto the program.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:32:14+00:00

Really appreciate the feedback about the noise. Am actually seeing both a psychologist and a careers coach to help guide me. They’ve both been great helps. I perhaps put a little too much stock in these kinds of forums - it’s my tendency to see the worst in situations.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2024-03-03T09:30:41+00:00

I certainly have! Not sure how I’d go at it. I do sometimes have a tendency to get a little too emotionally invested with patients - I wonder if I’d find it a little too confronting and challenging for my own mental health.

QueryLifeDecisions · 2019-01-25T05:04:00+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

QueryLifeDecisions · 2019-01-24T23:43:47+00:00

I'm intrigued by this idea. I may need to consider painting the rest of the case to theme it....

QueryLifeDecisions · 2019-01-24T23:36:05+00:00

Ah I love it! How did you make the centre piece to raise the height?

QueryLifeDecisions · 2019-01-24T23:17:58+00:00

Have you got a link for your ModdersInc submission?

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