Your no friend of mine

Everyday, guaranteed, I recieve bleeps from wards to review patient I don’t look after.

Why?

It’s because these wards don’t know who their buddy is!

Let me start from the beginning.

For a long time in my hospital, and also other hospitals, medical outliers on surgical wards have a habit of being missed for several days or longer. So they’ve started something called a buddy system, which is where assigned medical wards look after medical outliers on surgical wards. Is the system working- is it fuck!

The main problem is, only the consultants have been emailed about the new buddy system and not any of the ward managers or staff nurses. Who came up with that brainstorm? So everyday, I get bleeped from a ward I don’t cover and have to fob the nurse off.

Another good idea ballsed up. Well done guys

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Where’s the excitement?

ER

Holby City

Casualty

Doctors

St Elsewhere

Chicago Hope

Grey’s Anatomy

Do you know what all these shows have in common?

You’d be correct to say they are medical shows. And also correct to say they are some of the many medical shows that swamp out TV channels. And dare I say it, you’d be correct in saying some of these are highly entertaining…sometimes, but…

…y’know what I think?

I think all these shows are lying to the general public! What lies, you may say?

Well the first being that life in a hospital is always exciting! Well it isn’t. Like an office, there is routine, and routine can be boring. Secondly these programmes, especially Holby Shitty gives the impression that you can get any test or operation done with the click of a finger. Bollocks i say. I’ve been waiting 3 bleeding weeks for a routine inpatient echo at my hospital. Thirdly, the reality of surviving a cardiac arrest in hospital is low, and if it’s out of hospital even lower- basically your buggered! But on Holby, every bugger survives and is speaking after a few minutes. Of course the nurses on Holby are far fitter than on my ward, who mostly look like Jo Brand on a bad day.

Of course I’m biased being a dr.

Currently I am doing a care of the crumblies and i’m bored bored bored. My daily life as a dr only gets more exciting when i’m on-call, but the 4 hour wait bollocks and managers breathing down your neck about breaches tends to sap any enthusiasm away. And the post takes- they can be either educational or mind numbing and hypoglycaemic inducing.

I know there are several NHS based blogs out there, well here is another, which will portray my trial and tribulations of working as a dr for the NHS. More likely, it will be my place to moan, whinge and spew my bile.

Lucky you!

And thus ends my first post, since I last blogged…let’s hope it improves!

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