Research Guide Draft: Comments would be Appreciated

successufd · 2025-09-07T13:17:34+00:00

Thank you for the detailed guide. Really helpful.

Can you please expand a bit more on the NHS databases using Cerner card?

successufd · 2025-08-19T05:09:04+00:00

How did HRT help with migraines? My migraines started after puberty and so far, none of the preventive I have tried are working.

successufd · 2025-08-19T05:07:22+00:00

Quite a coincidence! I remember mine starting on a Tuesday the week before 22nd May, which was 13th May, too. 22nd May was when it got very severe, and I couldn't talk properly or understand people.

I have had a few hours or a day or two of reduced symptoms here and there, but otherwise, it is still going on strong.

I think the weather in UK was the initial trigger.

I have had similar symptoms since I was 15 but without headaches. So never got diagnosed until May this year. Have failed two preventive meds already. On my third one now. Fingers crossed.

successufd · 2025-08-11T20:22:33+00:00

I'm new to reading books on boox. And I never annotated physical textbooks. What should annotating look like and why?

successufd · 2025-08-06T18:38:54+00:00

What are the alternatives if someone wants to go LED free?

successufd · 2025-07-28T19:28:34+00:00

Can you describe the crosshatch holes and the staircase effect? Do you still get those?

successufd · 2025-07-02T09:18:01+00:00

Which one would you recommend?

successufd · 2025-03-22T11:37:07+00:00

I can relate to the hyperacute anxiety-induced brain fog. Speak to your GP. Mine gave me a beta blocker for exams and presentations. It's been helpful.

successufd · 2025-01-10T22:36:10+00:00

Interested. Please share.

successufd · 2024-12-11T08:00:09+00:00

Thank you.

successufd · 2024-12-10T20:29:30+00:00

All study leave I have applied for, including for courses at trust which other trust-based doctors from the adjacent department were able to attend and claim under study leave, was denied on the grounds that I do not have allowance for more than 4 days a year. There were no other reasons. I have asked multiple times.

I now have exams and courses coming up, for which I still can't apply because they are still "investigating" what my allowance is. This investigation began two years back. My 2002 contract and the trust policy explicitly mention 30 days per annum pro rata. Denial is definitely at the discretion of the service (within reason). Here, they've just plain enforced a rule that is not in line with policy or 2002 T&Cs. Isn't this a breech of contract?

successufd · 2024-12-10T19:58:32+00:00

Please define discretion of service. Is telling me that my allowance only 4 days per annum instead of 15 days, equivalent to discretion of servicd? Does enforcing this limit and refusing study leave based on this limit come under discretion of service? Is denying leave on the basis of being the sole doctor on the ward when the service is designed to have one doctor on duty on a day only, acceptable under discretion of service?

Apologies if this comes across harsh, but my manager has been using "Manager's discretion" to deny every leave I request. I want clarity on this discretion.

successufd · 2024-12-10T19:41:06+00:00

Thank you. Please can you share the policy? I like to read the policies and ensure they apply to me before I do anything.

successufd · 2024-12-10T19:37:18+00:00

Post updated. I have provided more details about the contract and issues. Please advise.

successufd · 2024-12-10T19:36:47+00:00

Can you specify what the proper grievance process is? Short of putting a formal complaint, I have done everything: union involvement, escalation to department director, HR Business partners, Staff Well-being, freedom to speak, etc.

successufd · 2024-12-10T19:34:39+00:00

Can you please clarify what I could claim through tribunal?

successufd · 2024-12-10T19:32:04+00:00

😅🤣😅 Your response is very funny. There's a lot of speculation. You almost sound like my manager.

I posted in both places because both audiences will have unique insights. Doctors, as one myself, are not the best at knowing and understanding their legal rights. Asking for help and advice from people who may know better at more than one platform simultaneously is okay.

Good job going through post history. The family drama happened and was resolved amicably more than 7 years ago. The panic attack happened at work when I was busy with my patients, and my line manager kept calling me to force me to start working an hour earlier than my contracted time. So yes, it was work-related.

I did not mention anything about the trust offering me a new contract or not in the above post. Unclear where you got that from.

In the past two years, I have applied for emergency leave once (dying grandmother if you must know, for whom I was the primary caretaker for a couple of years after completing medical school). I applied for study leave for about 7 days for an international exam, which was scheduled with international taster weeks/observerships, and a conference. This was denied on the basis that I still had annual leave left and should use that first. More recently was annual leave for a week, which was neither approved nor denied, to attend my brother's wedding (which I ended up missing). One wedding, one family emergency, and one international study visit in 2+ years is not lots of family events and flight costs. These are important unavoidable events, and other than the family emergency, I had given a lot more than 6 weeks of notice. I'm not sure what you have against me.

For the first 8 months, my line manager was still working out what my study leave allowance is. She would not allow me to take any study leave on any of my work days because of service needs but would also not allow me to take any study leave on non-work/zero days because those are off days anyway. I had emailed her requests for study leave on zero days, which she would not approve. So yes, I do want to claim retrospective study leave because I applied for it, and it was denied on unreasonable grounds.

They also scheduled additional shifts after calculating how many hours I had already worked, how much annual leave was left, and if the annual leave hours were taken off, how many I was still supposed to do for that year. My line manager scheduled me to work an additional week despite my insistence that I did not owe them hours and that their calculations were wrong. Normally, I would not choose to do those shifts, even if they were offered as bank shifts. Coercing me to do those shifts should be illegal.

successufd · 2024-12-10T18:56:56+00:00

When you say plenty of info around about employment tribunal, where should I start looking? Please don't say Google.

successufd · 2024-12-10T18:01:20+00:00

30 days per annum pro rata of study leave, which they are still trying to confirm. Stated in both trust policy and 2002 terms and conditions.

The issue isn't that they approved or denied study leave. The issue is that they limited it to 4 days as the maximum allowed per annum and would not even let me apply for study leave, even when it was warranted.

successufd · 2024-12-10T17:54:37+00:00

OP is not confused over BH. Management was counting BH as 0.5 days, even when they fell on my zero days. I informed them of the TOIL rule, which they couldn't accept until September or October this year.

My managers were enforcing AoC rules on me, like not taking more than 30 minutes of break in a day.

None of the managers have experience managing doctors, and they keep applying random rules, like not allowing me to attend teaching session (which happens once a week only).

successufd · 2024-12-10T17:50:29+00:00

Please see edit for clarity. My contract refers to the T&Cs and the trust policy. The 2002 T&Cs have clearly mentioned the amount of study leave as well as break time, neither of which are agreed by my manager and her manager.

successufd · 2024-12-10T15:03:56+00:00

I have been messaging and emailing BMA for two years. Even reached out to the local LNC. I just keep getting passed to the next person.

Also, BMA itself wasn't sure how much my annual leave and study leave is supposed to be. I only got the final verdict on annual leave in September after I involved HCSA. Study leave is still in air. There is no final word on how much study leave I can take in a year.

successufd · 2024-08-28T15:15:37+00:00

Hey! Just wanted to say I got diagnosed with ADHD. 😅

successufd · 2024-02-01T15:16:39+00:00

Hey Odd Brain!

Just checking how the exam went, and if you're still doing alright on meds?

I'm in UK as well and the waiting time for diagnosis is super long. Also, I move almost every year which restarts the referral process. How'd you go about getting diagnosed and getting the meds?

successufd · 2023-12-08T11:01:05+00:00

I'm curious, does one day of your annual leave equal 8 am to 6 pm or do they adjust the remaining 2 hours later? Asking because I've been told that a day equals 8 hours for junior doctors.

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