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Get stuck in
When applying to medical school, few applicants realise that as a clinical medical student you will spend a substantial proportion of your time waiting for things to happen. This may be waiting for tutorials to begin, waiting for patients to arrive, or waiting for the inevitable grilling from the consultant about a topic that is beyond your powers of recall. Occasionally during these mundane periods of waiting, something dramatic and totally unexpected occurs. I recently found myself in … Read this article >>
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Spare a thought for the secretaries
Poorly paid and often overworked, you’ll find them, most likely, in the crumbling recesses of the hospital, struggling with ageing computers in offices piled high with patients’ charts. I have spent two summers working as a temporary medical secretary t … Read this article >>
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Are you ready for the next influenza pandemic?
Imagine a deadly strain of influenza is sweeping across the country, and medical students are drafted in to help tackle this crisis. Would you be able to join the front line? If you think that students are immune from having to face such an event, then … Read this article >>
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Forty years on
The headmaster in Alan Bennett’s play Forty Years On is increasingly surprised at the different standards of the next generation of boys. One generation has to be very careful about presuming to speak to another, but at the 40th year reunion of our year at Glasgow, issues emerged that we … Read this article >>
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My experience of palliative care
Another day in another place as a junior doctor: this was my rather bleak view when I started as a foundation doctor in palliative medicine. On my first day I was greeted by the team, who explained their working pattern. As a hospital based liaison serv … Read this article >>
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