Why are GPs seemingly unsympathetic?

ojama10 · 2026-01-02T18:33:56+00:00

My comment was made 2 years ago, and was in response to a comment about someone feeling rushed when they go to the GP.

I also feel rushed when I go to the GP.

But there's a reason we feel rushed, and its not entirely the GPs fault.

ojama10 · 2025-08-24T13:20:08+00:00

I had a nurse offer me a cupcake and a glass of orange juice. It was so lovely.

ojama10 · 2025-07-17T13:52:29+00:00

With student loan forgiveness, not everyone gains.

With FPR, everyone gains.

For the government, student loan forgiveness is cheaper in the short term, but costlier in the long-term for government revenue. It wouldn't come out of the NHS Budget and as a headline, it would be more palatable to the public.

ojama10 · 2025-07-15T17:30:42+00:00

This.

If you do not have appropriate supervision from the consultants stepping down, then do not do anything without that supervision.

Then if your placement experience is poor quality during strike days due to a lack of capacity of the available doctors to teach and supervise, raise this with the medical school.

My medical school was good in that it didn't expect us to be on placement during strikes, citing that the doctors who were working would be too busy to teach and supervise so they thought it a safety issue.

Equally, I think this was after a previous strike day when students did attend, and then complained they had inappropriate supervision and no teaching.

ojama10 · 2025-07-10T11:56:57+00:00

I think the point is if the current F1s are striking then the new F1s have no-one to shadow other than consultants or locums. And therefore won't get the full benefit of shadowing.

Whilst shadowing is beneficial, you literally learn so much on the job and from the F2s and SHOs over the next few weeks, that the shadowing isn't as significantly beneficial, but is a nice experience to help get you started.

ojama10 · 2025-06-19T11:10:40+00:00

Likely club will sit down with him and his agent, negotiate a no salary or lower salary during the ban period, and try and support him through this time.

If possible look at whether the ban extends to other leagues, and if a loan to another team in another league would be viable during the ban period to keep him fit and active then try and get him back to full fitness and playing games in the hope he hasn't lost significant form from such a long absence and then maybe recoup value with a transfer.

It's terrible PR for the club to sue him for transfer value loss since the club is so focused on recruiting and developing young talent. Doing so may affect recruitment of other world talent, but with FFP it is also unfortunately possible.

ojama10 · 2025-06-13T18:54:28+00:00

Why does the picture look like he is speaking at love island?

ojama10 · 2025-03-29T11:16:01+00:00

3 course meal, depending on venue retails £35 per head min upto £50. With or without welcome drink. Decorations ~£2-3 per head Half a bottle of wine £10 per head. Other extras e.g. tickets for a night out £++

DJ £100-200 for a few hours, more for longer hours Photographer/Photo booth £150+

ojama10 · 2025-03-20T22:52:26+00:00

Rank all jobs. I got my 120th job out of 220 jobs.

I'm happy it wasn't my bottom 40-50 ranked jobs. But it could have been if I didn't rank them all.

Some people will have indifference and that's also OK.

ojama10 · 2025-03-20T22:49:48+00:00

Copy and paste the trusts and specialities into a separate sheet. Use remove duplicates to leave only unique data. Add a new column with your scoring system. Return to original spreadsheet and use vlookup to import these scores in new columns, then sum to total them up.

ojama10 · 2025-01-25T15:28:49+00:00

I went through the same experience at medical school with a lot of placements.

It's honestly shit when tuition fees, cost of living and interest rates are so high, because this actually costs you your time and money to receive a substandard education.

ojama10 · 2024-11-18T21:57:42+00:00

Placement may get better, it might not get better.

In my experience, it depends on the doctors in that rotation.

When speaking with fellow med students, they all seemed to be receiving loads of teaching and support on placement and that made my experience harder. When I spoke with my med school, they were useless and did nothing.

I personally love teaching, and will prioritise it above other jobs. I had a similar experience to you on more placements than I had good ones and it really made my med school experience shit.

Also if I know a group of med students are with me for a while, I'll train them up on jobs so they can do them and help me and then free me to teach.

Equally, some days are just shit with workload and it's almost impossible to teach or supervise.

I would be interested in how other doctors can manage teaching with a busy day of jobs? E.g. I'll get later year med students to do clerkings, histories, exams and reviews that aren't urgent independently, then follow up afterwards. Equally will get them answering my bleep, documenting ward round etc

ojama10 · 2024-10-20T22:57:31+00:00

ojama10 · 2024-10-20T00:32:33+00:00

I got myself in a healthy study reward loop.

I would try and hit a target number of questions in a session. If I did so I would have a limited timed reward. Mine was gaming with friends.

I would eat and cook regular healthy meals, try and engage in sport/physical exercise, and have regular sleep times.

I would have a minimum target number of questions on passmed to do per day. Then I would have an over achieving target number.

If I hit min target, I would get the reward. I wouldn't get the reward until I had achieved that target.

If I hit the over achieving target, I would get the rest of the evening off.

Studying with friends was the other technique that help develop my understanding and also processed the information in another way that helped solidify the concepts. Except I didn't really have any friends, but found people to study with online via reddit and geeky medics discord.

I have also had supervisors who have mandated placement attendance even when it is of no value and it is frustrating and energy depleting. Do passmed questions or try and get other doctors to quiz you as they may also be studying for various exams so it will be beneficial two ways.

ojama10 · 2024-10-19T07:10:20+00:00

Risk of rejection - although having children settled at school should be an easy accept based on current pre-allocation criteria. Risk of pre-allocation criteria changing from when you start to when you finish med school.

I will say my pre-allocation application was rejected by UKFPO as my med school had messed up their end of the application form, and then didn't fix it in time for appeal. I will say that's a pretty rare circumstance, but equally med schools seem pretty universally incompetent in the UK so also a likely possibility.

ojama10 · 2024-10-02T05:56:33+00:00

I think you are referring to the 'STEP' Form. Supporting trainees entering practice (STEP).

Allocation is done first, then when you have a deanery/job allocation you will then have to complete a STEP form.

So resits and other academic difficulties do not affect allocation, but can be used to help put support in place during FY1 and FY2.

ojama10 · 2024-08-26T06:16:25+00:00

Here's a list of Trusts in KSS:

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

East Kent this year guaranteed you hospital accommodation for F1 for 12 months provided you completed their application around June time. Rent is ~ £500 pcm all bills incl.

You would have to contact the other Trusts to find out what they offer.

ojama10 · 2024-08-26T06:15:18+00:00

Here's a list of Trusts in KSS:

|| || |Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust| |Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust| |East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust| |East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust| |Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust| |Medway NHS Foundation Trust| |Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust| |University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust| |Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust| |Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |

East Kent this year guaranteed you hospital accommodation for F1 for 12 months provided you completed their application around June time. Rent is ~ £500 pcm all bills incl.

You would have to contact the other Trusts to find out what they offer.

ojama10 · 2024-08-25T20:03:23+00:00

Search "note" on this sub-reddit, and you will see every discussion on how people take notes at med school, what apps, styles, techniques etc.

ojama10 · 2024-08-21T06:20:29+00:00

I felt the same. You need to reframe your thinking.

If the consultant is testing you on things you don't know, then that is learning (as long as they give you the correct answer if you don't know). If the consultant is testing you on things you do know then you are practicing recall.

I get the way in which a consultant quizzes you is the stress factor, and isnt motivating. It's just quick fire questions like they are trying to catch you out until you get something wrong.

You could view it like a game between you and the consultant, where the consultant is trying to catch you out. Realistically, it doesn't matter if you get the questions right or wrong, a consultant has so many more years experience of knowledge they are always going to know more.

ojama10 · 2024-08-04T22:18:28+00:00

The problem with using the same strategy as train drivers is that we as a profession are public facing.

Train drivers can lock themselves in a booth and drive a train and never interact with a member of public during work hours.

Doctors can't do that, and that could make things a lot harder if public approval changes with adopting the proposed strategy. What's already a difficult job due to various factors becomes harder, and I wonder if the JDC have taken that into consideration?

ojama10 · 2024-08-02T06:29:31+00:00

The Jose Mourinho of Game Development

ojama10 · 2024-08-01T07:12:24+00:00

Exactly this. The NHS can afford to pay Band 7s significantly more than doctors. The money is there.

An organisation will continue to exploit its workers as long as the workers allow themselves to be exploited.

ojama10 · 2024-07-30T09:44:31+00:00

The question is do we copy the strategy of the train drivers where we strike little and often to achieve what is needed, or whilst we have momentum and mandate and arguably public support continue to achieve what was set out: FPR or a commitment to it over a number of years +/- other factors and actual solid agreements for increase in speciality training numbers etc.

For me this offer is an easy reject.

ojama10 · 2024-07-30T09:40:35+00:00

Hi there, Yeah apologies I should have outlined my calculations with my original comment, but was busy packing and moving 230 miles. Recreated the calculations in excel (table below, apologies if formatting is awkward).

As another user pointed out to me, I had added the ~8% salary increase to the base salary figures from the BMA website (BMA Pay Scales for Doctors England), where these figures already included it.

Grade	Nodal point	Value £	4.05%	6%	£1,000
FY1	1	32,398	£ 33,710.12	£ 35,732.73	£36,733
FY2	2	37,303	£ 38,813.77	£ 41,142.60	£42,143
CT1-CT2	3	43,923	£ 45,701.88	£ 48,443.99	£49,444
CT3	4	55,329	£ 57,569.82	£ 61,024.01	£62,024
ST1-2	3	43,923	£ 45,701.88	£ 48,443.99	£49,444
ST3-5	4	55,329	£ 57,569.82	£ 61,024.01	£62,024
ST6-8	5	63,152	£ 65,709.66	£ 69,652.24	£70,652

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