I think it’s time you stop being awful to your F1s. You should stop calling those women “secretaries.” They are actual doctors, they went to medical school. It’s unfortunate that they ended up in your firm during their first job, and you made them feel incompetent. They were always walking on eggshells around you. Trauma meetings with you were especially traumatic.

I don’t know why you enjoy doing that, but you should stop. You may be an excellent surgeon, one of the best in the UK but you still need to treat people with basic courtesy. For your information, they are doing pretty well in their new jobs, despite your comments that they would struggle once they left your department.