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!

New Job, New Car and New Flat

Soooo, it’s been a while since i’ve posted a blog. A lot has happened since July 21st!

I started my 1st full time hospital dr post since december 2005. My 1st job is the ludicrously piss easy Psychiatry job, which has an on call rota of no weekends, no nights and nothing past 5pm, but the pay is low as a result.

The 1st day consisted of registration and intro lectures. The 2nd day, my consultant was away, so i checked out the new hospital and bumped into some mates, which brings me to the new flat statement…

On Thursday evening, I found out from my sister, that the long awaited exchange of contracts had finally occurred and the day of completion and the move was to be Friday. i hurriedly arranged annual leave for Friday, checked out a grotty (unlikely) flat for leamington, and then drove home to Essex. Got home by 8pm, and promptly cleaned out my car and sold it for 200 squid. It is probably worth more, but i’ve really battered it over the years. I have now ‘inherited’ my sisters car, as she does not want it anymore—it has low mileage, A/C, power steering and is less battered! Cool!

On Friday the removal men turned up bright and early and started the ‘Big Move Out’ from the house and Essex. After approx. 1.5 hours the house was cleared and we found it from our solicitor that the 1st half of the money transfer had been completed. There was some sadness leaving our house, as there are so many memories there! 20 minutes after we arrived in N1, we had our keys and the ‘Big Move In’ to Islington had started. I helped the removal men (two Poles from Woolwich), and was left knackered and aching by the end, as well as cut and bruised. Lugging boxes up to a 2nd floor flat on a muggy day was fucking hard!

Since moving in, we have managed to make the flat more homely, though there are many boxes yet to unpack!

A slight diversion to the weekend of moving came in the form of the free music festival in Regent’s Park called ‘FruitStock’. I saw Norman Jay and Arrested Development live too—v cool and free!

I am now back in Leamington, crashing at my mates house, after a quick 1.5 hour drive from London to Leamington. Wow! and i did that without touching the M25!

I’ll try and update my blog more regularly, especially regarding the highs and lows of Psychiatry.