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!

HOT! HOt! hot! and other stuff going on…

Jeez! It’s steaming at the moment! The weather is amazing at the moment.

So what have i been doing since my last entry? More than usual, but not working, despite job offers all over the freaking country.

OK, first thing first—if i am getting all these job offers, why oh why am i not taking them and earning dosh and being a doctor?! Well…despite not having worked that much since December, and only doing two HO on-call weekends, i have not done any proper SHO on-calls and thus feel unconfident to be a lone medical SHO on-call at night or on a weekend in a unknown hospital. Therefore, i feel i am being responsible by turning down these jobs. I’ve only got 4 weeks till i start my 1st full time job in 8 months!

2 weeks back, i went to visit my mate John, who has recently moved from Chester to Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury is a small town, approximately 1 hour west from birmingham. The journey time up to Shrewsbury from Essex was bloody long and i was roasting in my mobile oven aka the car. For the last 100 miles i used country roads as the motorways were pissing me off!

The weekend consisted of visiting the sites of Shrewsbury which is apparently an old medieval town and drinking quite a bit, going to cheesy late night bars, meeting up with a friend whom i hadn’t seen in nearly 2 years, drinking some more and watching the England match in a bar with 10 screens, where unfortunately a whole contingent of noisy lesbians continually pissed us off by constantly getting and walking.

This weekend gone, I went to Harrogate and visited my friends to celebrate their engagement and have a BBQ. I also met up with someone who i’ve been chatting online with—i won’t go into to much detail yet, but will do soon. Harrogate is a wealthy town like Leamington Spa—lots of nice sports cars! I also visited Hull too.

Today, i caught up on some sleep, despite it being v hot and sweaty. Went to IKEA and bought some furniture. Looked at laptops in PC World, for my sister, as her desktop is coming to the end of it s computer life. Started re-watching ‘This Life’ DVD too which i got for free from a friend who didn’t want it—cool!

That’s all for now! Double bill of ‘Lost’ tonight!