Junior Resident Doctor

I am a GP Trainee, Resident (Formally ‘Junior’) Doctor, that also works in an Emergency Department (ED). When I am working in ED, I complain about GPs, and when I work in my practice, I complain about ED Doctors. I think of myself as a Schrodinger’s Doctor, as before I have started my shift, you can be sure there’s a 50% chance I will complain about one group of colleagues. I am also dead inside.

This blog will be collection of interesting anecdotes and bone chillingly dull insights into life as a doctor and working in the NHS. It is for doctors, medical students and prospective medics. Although I am cynical, I still believe being a doctor is one of the greatest honours that can be put upon us as a human being, and we forget that when other humans take the advice of their mate Steve on vaccines above our own. Steve thinks vaccines are bad for you and our immune system is “already trained well enough”. I held Steve’s dad’s hand as he was intubated when he become unwell with Covid pneumonitis back in 2020 after he followed Steve’s advice.
If you wish to discuss vaccines with patients and friends, I would recommend listening to this podcast as it answers questions I have been unable to when some mouth breather has corned me at 3am and tried to pin me down as a “Big Pharma Stooge”:

Enjoy