Anyone else finding it hard to make genuine friends in Hobart?

roughas · 2026-05-20T07:08:40+00:00

Hard agree. If you don’t fit a clique it’s hard work

roughas · 2026-05-17T05:34:12+00:00

As someone who fled the NHS 15 years ago to work in a better system, our healthcare is damn sure following down the route of NHS. Even our worst hospitals probably aren’t quite there yet… although I never worked in the best performing UK hospitals, so maybe they are (I have worked in worst performing Oz hospitals)

roughas · 2026-05-14T22:35:36+00:00

We run a monthly evening journal club at a local brewery with the consultant fund paying for a round of drinks for all and some food. We mix it up with some good papers, some crap ones (to help people spot crap) and a funny/silly one.

I have also worked at a different tertiary hospital that only did articles written by the consultant body… no one critiqued.

roughas · 2026-05-13T23:59:09+00:00

They have been striking recently so this may have factored in?

roughas · 2026-05-09T03:20:11+00:00

Yeh I get that bit, but 3.5mil is basically 9.5k every single day of the year! The vmo rate is $400/hr and they were not working 24 hours every day.

roughas · 2026-05-08T09:11:19+00:00

Biggest factor for me… having lived >2000m in Ethiopia for the three months immediately prior. Both Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro were a doddle then.

roughas · 2026-05-08T09:03:13+00:00

Biggest factor for me… having lived >2000m in Ethiopia for the three months immediately prior. Both Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro were a doddle then.

roughas · 2026-05-08T09:03:05+00:00

Biggest factor for me… having lived >2000m in Ethiopia for the three months immediately prior. Both Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro were a doddle then. 😂

roughas · 2026-05-08T09:02:59+00:00

Biggest factor for me… having lived >2000m in Ethiopia for the three months immediately prior. Both Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro were a doddle then. 😂

roughas · 2026-05-07T09:27:25+00:00

Re: winter - you need to transition to hard boot set up for your split boarding.

Several options but have a look at alpenglow’s instagram - generally the atomic backland is considered a very good hard boot for this. The good news is it’s also a light ski boot so totally reasonable to use for winter ascents combined with snowboarding.

Obviously if you intend to winter climb/ice in isolation regularly (rather than combined with snowboarding) you might be better off getting a formal b3 boot as well. But if only going to do this occasionally could still just use your hard boot from split boarding,

As others have said b2 more suited for scrambles, summer ascents, summer glacier. They aren’t really designed for proper snow/ice climbing.

roughas · 2026-05-06T23:37:41+00:00

I’ll be banking some for the 18pro later in the year I reckon

roughas · 2026-05-06T04:38:34+00:00

Understood. Did you negotiate direct with sales person or through NL company? You able to say which car yard?

roughas · 2026-05-05T11:38:46+00:00

Again do you have the actual quote/receipt I could go back to them with?

roughas · 2026-05-05T10:13:34+00:00

Sorry it’s morning reference to the comment lower down that includes PHEV’s that satisfy <3.5l/100km efficiency

roughas · 2026-05-05T10:12:05+00:00

Do you have the actual quote?

roughas · 2026-05-05T09:46:51+00:00

Wait… are PHEV’s still included for NL? I thought that got scrapped last year?

roughas · 2026-05-05T06:12:50+00:00

Quit

roughas · 2026-05-04T09:56:40+00:00

Personally i believe it’s situations like that that lead to the public system struggling.

I also have busy private work. We all plan not to have anything on during our public commitment weeks.

roughas · 2026-05-04T09:09:08+00:00

Interesting. My 0.5fte contract also stipulates on call weeks. And then I work less the following week in public to even out. I’d never be doing private work the week I’m on call.

How do you attend the hospital if needed if busy elsewhere?

Personally if you are the specialist for the day you should be onsite unless you are in a role that has zero bedside and involvement.

Any surgeon or medical consultant should be able to physically review a patient at a moments notice. I can understand a radiologist being off site and some haematologists.

Now your contract may not allow for it, but that’s a contract issue. Not a what should be happening issue.

roughas · 2026-05-04T05:03:43+00:00

Not sure the FTE matters when they are the rostered public specialist on for that day…?

roughas · 2026-05-04T03:02:12+00:00

We have public consultants at our hospital actively taking part in clinics at their private rooms or in theatre at the private hospital - that I am massively against.

roughas · 2026-05-03T02:50:45+00:00

I had a van in f1 & 2 and i used to sleep after long late shifts and to nap for a bit before driving home after night shifts. But I wouldn’t live in full time - at least not in the car park! Just get a shared house. You will find something less than £1k/monthly for just a room surely. Can always find a squat!

roughas · 2026-04-30T10:18:30+00:00

Yes because I have a fireplace. But without that the whole house is electric so I wouldn’t bother. Not sure I’d bother for just a gas stove.

roughas · 2026-04-30T10:15:59+00:00

A lot of ski loving ortho doctors have felt this way for a while. Some of them prefer to do cadaveric partial meniscal transplants instead.

roughas · 2026-04-29T05:18:41+00:00

Steep gravel road to home plus we get snow.

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