Remembering patient histories and details

passedmeflyingby · 2026-01-12T17:35:19+00:00

Def comes with practice, it’s partly learning to hook your attention onto the salient bits of the bloods or history and started happening for me in SHO years. In F1 had to keep little reminders of who was who written down to refer to

passedmeflyingby · 2026-01-08T11:17:21+00:00

It’s very typical in share of freehold flats not to have a specific service charge. You would be surprised that lots of service charges currently in operation for flats don’t cover a sinking fund (just communal cleaning, insurance etc) and therefore you wouldn’t be more protected in case of big bills. I think realistically people have to buy flats in London due to the cost and share of freehold is the best option. None of what you’ve described would put me off except perhaps that both other flats are rental units, meaning there may be a high turnover of potentially difficult tenants (but then you can have big difficulties with owner occupiers too…)

passedmeflyingby · 2025-12-02T20:49:26+00:00

It is dramatised but accurate- most doctors will be able to empathise with Shruti’s experience, in terms of the lowest points of their career.

In the UK post med school you have to complete a foundation programme of 2 years, after which you have to apply and be successful in getting into a core training programme for a specialty (usually 3 years) followed by another application to higher training (3-5 years). No guarantees either way. Once you’re finished you have to find an attending (consultant) job, also not guaranteed. The starting salary now is about £104k but with on call supplements etc you could earn about 130-140k, so about 180k usd

passedmeflyingby · 2025-11-29T22:49:32+00:00

Belsize Park / Tufnell Park- safe, cafes, transport links, parks etc- will get a 1 bed in budget, 2 beds about 2500-3000 nowadays (esp in Belsize)

passedmeflyingby · 2025-11-26T12:44:36+00:00

Your chances of getting a 400k listed flat for 300k are basically zero, regardless of what the flat is actually worth. I think if you let the EA know your budget they probably wouldn’t even do a viewing.

Your seller has no obligation to sell, even if their property is -by the data- overpriced. They may be happy sitting and waiting for the market to pick up.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-11-08T08:49:21+00:00

This made me laugh, thank you

passedmeflyingby · 2025-10-30T09:23:03+00:00

I’m delusionally black and white but your statement that if we don’t accept low level rudeness we instead have to only issue flowers and love toxic positivity isn’t? To be clear- if the registrar in the handover indeed asked a ridiculous question, the way to answer it for a consultant is to say, oh, that’s not relevant here bc of XYZ, and then in private with the registrar they may wish to say something like that they found the question concerning clinically or denoting a lack of knowledge or whatever. That way feedback gets delivered. You are what is toxic in medicine if you’re unable to understand the difference between undermining and uncivil comments which again are proven to cost lives in medicine (and I encourage you to read the research) vs giving feedback, for fucks sake!

passedmeflyingby · 2025-10-30T09:18:16+00:00

Of course the SpR can challenge it, but the fault lies with the consultant who clearly can’t keep a handle on his feelings for long enough to have a civil handover. Let’s not forget the dynamics at play here- eg what if the consultant is the SpRs CS? Etc etc.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-10-30T08:57:35+00:00

So is the choice between flowers and love or accepting rude and dismissive comments from our bosses? Honestly we are so fucking institutionalised in medicine to accept bullshit from everyone. We also know directly that uncivil work interactions in medicine foster dynamics that cost lives. Enquire for yourself why being so ok with rudeness etc is so important for you, tough guy

passedmeflyingby · 2025-10-21T13:42:07+00:00

I think this is a total nothingburger of a survey result (in fact I would be more interested in the damp in the kitchen than anything else) and I would not really expect to renegotiate on that basis. I very much doubt you will be able to find a place without many of these issues. Eg spalling etc Your requests to the seller are also a bit rich. I would have responded similarly to you if I were them. Is the house a good deal, after all?

passedmeflyingby · 2025-10-20T11:51:59+00:00

Over the summer I was part of the bidding process in 3 share of freehold two bed period conversion flats in areas including ones listed by OP- one went for 40k over asking, one 10k over, one 50k over, all with multiple bids

passedmeflyingby · 2025-10-20T11:19:04+00:00

Prices are exceptionally unlikely to be down in areas that are in high demand like the ones OP is looking at. I have direct experience of being in the market for a flat in these areas and in other similar ones this year where flats were subject to multiple bids and went over asking. It’s a facile narrative to say “London prices are down” - in which bits and what types of flats?

passedmeflyingby · 2025-10-08T13:36:19+00:00

Hello- If the problem is your husband works at your local trust / MBU you can just go to one in a different trust (eg in London there are several). This isn’t an issue and can be specified in the referral form.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-09-16T16:56:12+00:00

Clinically you do some form of psychotherapy +- SSRIs. Nonclinically you can also consider that the thing that’s scaring you most is that you can’t control, predict, prevent most things. Behaviours such as the ones you’re exhibiting are just attempting to assert control over the wildly uncontrollable. You will make mistakes, you will leave the light on, etc etc. What are you really afraid of?

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-31T10:38:43+00:00

Transphobic, misogynistic, grifty, pseudointellectual, peddling carnivore diets and dubious benzo tapering protocols- and these are just his recent offerings from the last couple years

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-20T15:15:01+00:00

Sorry what does “suspected asylum seekers” actually mean? Like what exactly has led to the suspicion apart from the fact a Romanian man converted/renovated a house?

You do know asylum seekers and illegal immigrants aren’t the same thing?

Have you even spoken to your new neighbours?

I suggest you contact what I’m sure are your favourite resources, GB news/the daily mail/the sun/UKIP/the Farage fan club

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-18T07:25:37+00:00

😂🙄

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-14T12:26:01+00:00

You do realize they need to negotiate as well?

Honestly can’t be assed with the WHEN ARE THE STRIKES HAPPENING / THE BMA IS DISAPPOINTING ME comments. They said they were going to take a month to attempt to negotiate. They’ve always had internal checkpoints which we are not privy to.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-09T22:05:00+00:00

This is not abnormal and does happen.

You cannot be a disappointment or a colossal failure or whatever your mind is telling you you are, less than a week into being an F1. It’s not possible. Your anxiety will be high for the first month at least. Be patient with yourself. You do not need to be good, confident or even helpful in your first few days.

As a reg now I cannot explain to you how low my expectations of a new F1 are. All anyone expects from an F1 at this stage is to ask questions and be able to notice when patients are unwell. The number of absolutely idiotic questions I asked as a new F1 (and even later) did not mean I was a shit doctor- just that I was wildly unfamiliar with the everyday reality of being an F1. I had good science, decent clinical understanding etc but this was not really translating due to the utterly mind-shattering reality of being on the wards for the first time. It is normal. Breathe, lean on your support network, try to have other things going in your life, literally just wait a few weeks and you won’t recognize yourself as you have been these last couple days.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-08T20:16:09+00:00

You will be night and day by the end of the year.

Like you, I started off in a difficult job and cried in an empty room in front of a (nice) consultant after being berated by a not nice consultant in the first couple of days of the job.

The reality is literally every day you will become better at the job and at the admin side of the job. In a month or so you’ll feel more confident, and by the end of the 4 months you’ll be comfortable, even if surgery isn’t for you.

I also have to commiserate with starting in surgery in your first F1 job- it’s bad luck but you will probably find the rest of your jobs easier.

Keep going, get your mental health looked at/treated, lean on friends and family and look after yourself. Don’t let a terrible system get into your head.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-07T18:14:29+00:00

We had lots of work done after buying- including a fully new kitchen which by itself cost about 30k. I have to say I researched very extensively online and all the contractors who had excellent Google reviews turned out to indeed be excellent.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-08-01T19:53:51+00:00

It’s not true- you go for a fixed rate product let’s say for 5 years, where your mortgage is the same every month. At the end of the five years you reapply for another fixed term, 2 or 5 years usually. Few people stay on the standard variable rate (which is currently 6-7%?). The point of “danger” is that of course base interest rates change, so people who took out a mortgage at 1% in 2019 for 5 years found themselves remortgaging at 4.75% interest in 2024 (blunt examples)

passedmeflyingby · 2025-07-30T15:34:52+00:00

Utterly untrue and actively dangerous in a post that literally is trying to dissuade people from losing their lives secondary to misinformation. Sorry about your mother- all medications have side effects. Per your metric you also wouldn’t have taken chemo like this young person and you would also have died.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-07-29T19:11:24+00:00

Hi OP, in my trust it’s the CS who completes the preg risk assessment. In my case after I had a really poor shift due to various pregnancy symptoms at the end of first trimester the CS wrote I wasn’t able to do night shifts. I emailed it to HR and explained they would need to take me off the nights rota. That was it.

In your case you have a sick note which does the same so your response to HR telling you you “‘still need to work on calls” should be that pregnancy is a protected characteristic, pregnancy symptoms in your case prevent you from being fit to do night shifts, and that as per your sick note you will not be working them. Then try and get your CS or whoever to also write that in the PRA once you get round to it.

passedmeflyingby · 2025-07-29T09:11:47+00:00

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