In less than 7 weeks time, I will start my 2nd job as an F2 (SHO) in Cardiology. Wow! the time has really flown by, and then i will be back into hospital medicine once again! Previously I understood i would be doing a respiratory post under a locum consultant, but now i am actually due to start cardiology under a potentially difficult boss. Hope it works out ok.
i’ve booked myself onto a 2 day course in early december called the manchester study day. It aims to develop ones knowledge and skills in the management of acutely ill patients. I’m kind of looking forward to it, especially now that i know i’m doing cardio next!
last week, we were given more info wrt job applications for ST1 posts. i’m worried i won’t get the type of job i’d like as there is so much competition, and all my peers are as good as if not better than me. I’ve also spoken to many senior doctors that have changed career because of numerous reasons. We have to be sure in Jan 2007 what job we’re doing for the rest of our lives or we could end up unhappy. No wonder loads of docs are buggering off abroad!
Ok, enough work chat. So what else has happened since my man ‘flu “trauma”?
Well i have moved back to Leam, where i have previously lived as a med student and 1st year doc. I’m living in a very nice flat ’slap bang’ in the hear of the town with a final year PhD student whom i met through a flatshare site. She seems quite cool and sane at the moment!
My car is much the same—nice, but bloody slow in it’s acceleration. I considered looking a 2nd hand cars e.g. Golf, etc, but have now decided to leave it for at least ST1 training level, when hopefully i have more dosh.
What else? at the moment now, i am busily watching 2 dvd sets that i have borrowed of my F1. They are ‘Boston Legal’—a quirky, semi serious drama in the mould of ‘Ally MacBeal’ and incidently by the same writer, starring William Shatner and James Spader, and various gorgeous looking actresses. The other dvd set is ‘Due South series 1′ which is interesting and quirky, but not as good as BL.
I’ll try and write a bit more regularly, but nothing really exciting happens in Psych or i’m just too damn lazy and/or knackered to write about my life at the mo’.
Laters dudes!
October 11, 2006 at 5:19 pm
see you went for the upgrade. i like it
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ps – ixnay on work details on internet man. know that bloke is twat but hope he doesn’t read your blog
October 14, 2006 at 7:48 pm
i’ve adjusted it in order to cover my arse!
October 20, 2006 at 10:37 am
Dr Deep,
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Ben Fawkes
onexamination.com