A random night on-call

It seems the only time i update my blog is when i am on nights. Well tonight i have another random one off nights and so far it has been ok—i’ve seen 3 patients so far. For the medics it wasn’t too bad, but A&E was swamped with pissed up patients and injuries a few hours back.

Next week on Xmas day i have my 1st day on-call and then once again i am on a night on-call over the NYE weekend. I have so far spent only one day pn my ward and done one clinic, for which i still have to dictate my letters. I’ll do that tomorrow AM before going home.

I’m trying to get some of my F2 competencies done while i’m on nights—it’s such a hassle.

I’ll update this later today with further adventures of my night on-call…

New job, nights and general update

It’s been a while since i last updated my blog. haven’t honoured my promise to update it more regularly—oh well!

So yesterday i started my new 4 month F2 job which is Cardiology. I was well and truly happy to finish doing Psych. I met my new boss who wanted me to be in OPC but i couldn’t as I didn’t have any: ID, bleep, parking permit, met secretary etc. I found out i have only 10 patients at the moment which is OK and met some of the nurses on my new wards. Unfortunately i won’t really get to meet my team until 10 days time as i am starting nights tonight. Tonight i am on a 11am to 11pm shift and next week i am on a 7pm to 7am shift. It’s been ages since i’ve done nights, let alone medical nights and at least 2 years since i’ve done medical nights at GEH—bit nervous really! Not held a cardiac arrest bleep in ages too!

Since the last time i wrote my blog, i have seen the new Bond film and seen 2 gigs: The Charlatans and The Futureheads—i’ll try and write some reviews in due course.

Other than that, i’ve continued to play footy and tried to study for my MRCP Part 1 which is on Jan 23rd.

I’ll attempt to update this blog this weekend or next week.

Cheers

Time flies…

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!

One month later…

As I am no longer unemployed, sitting on my arse watching daytime TV, i now seem to be less inclined/interested in updating my blog— guess i am being just lazy really! Anyway with that stupid statement, I am now paradoxically updating my blog, almost one month after my last one!

So, I’ve almost done my first month of Psychiatry as an F2 SHO. How has it been then? Well to be honest, the first 3 weeks was rubbish—why? —well my boss was away and thus there were no outpatient clinics and we seemed to have no ill patients. For 3 weeks, me and my F1 (PRHO) were bored out of my brains. Thankfully our boss returned and we were both plunged into doing our own clinics and i did my 1st of many dictated notes. The other massive hassle, which i have finally sorted out is a bloody audit which i’ve been trying to get registered. I hate doing audits, but i need to do at least one of these bloody audits to complete my F2 year!

As I am lucky to have my weekends off, i have been off visiting friends etc. So last bank holiday weekend, I went home, back to the new flat, to check out how things had progressed. I built more furniture and sorted out my room so it was more livable. I went out for my mates 29th birthday on Saturday and met up some old mates (from Sheffield Uni) at the Notting Hill Carnival 2006 . Bought more furniture in IKEA on Monday, and then took the wrong turn back home, so we had a scenic view of London back to Islington.

I am now sitting in my room of the hospital accomodation i am renting, for a bargin price. Luckily this rented house is only 8 minutes from work and i save money on petrol. I’m just about to watch the England vs Andorra match now. Played footy earlier in Warwick— I am now aching! I am so unfit!

Might check out Leamington tomorrow. Do my usual, non-specific, ambling around town and try and do some work later.

Gotta go!