Do you know how it feels for many doctors?
You’re responsible for a lot. The buck stops with you. You learn this at medical school after battling for a place. You take this very, very seriously. At a time when others might be carefree, you miss weddings, you miss sleep...
You’re responsible for a lot. The buck stops with you. You learn this at medical school after battling for a place. You take this very, very seriously. At a time when others might be carefree, you miss weddings, you miss sleep...
You miss a stable life (forced to move around constantly to gain experience). For the early years of your career you have no stable work colleagues, on the move every 3-6 months. You carry on. You hold a bleep, it rings and rings. You cover staff gaps near-constantly....
When you’re off work you have professional obligations to behave in a particular manner. You take them seriously. Responsibility weighs heavy on your head. It’s very, very hard. You see things you wish you could forget. You make difficult decisions. You respect your colleagues...
You respect the public, who endure pain and waiting times and uncertainty and fear and you try to help with all of those but you worry it’s never quite enough.
The service gets cut but you try to stretch yourself thinner. You work into the night to pass exams which are hard...
The service gets cut but you try to stretch yourself thinner. You work into the night to pass exams which are hard...
You pay a significant chunk of your salary to take them, to learn, to pass, to do more.
Some of your colleagues leave and the workload builds. The patients keep coming, the buck stops with you.
You open the papers and see the scorn. The taxpayer pays you. You’re not doing...
Some of your colleagues leave and the workload builds. The patients keep coming, the buck stops with you.
You open the papers and see the scorn. The taxpayer pays you. You’re not doing...
enough. You’re lazy and patients are suffering. And you internalise this because you were trained to. The buck stops with you and you’re failing. It says you’re failing. You drive to work earlier. You try to be quicker. Your brain; coached through years and years of difficult...
exams, tries to find a solution to this problem. There must be a solution. How can I make myself more efficient? How can I need less to give the system more?
And yet the cuts keep coming. The articles keep coming. The patients, your patients keep coming and you must try...
And yet the cuts keep coming. The articles keep coming. The patients, your patients keep coming and you must try...
harder. And all the time responsible. Never showing the strain. Never admitting human exhaustion; never letting others down; never admitting defeat.
Your doctors have endured a pandemic. Your doctors endure expectation which never ends, which never takes a break. Your doctors..
Your doctors have endured a pandemic. Your doctors endure expectation which never ends, which never takes a break. Your doctors..
Care about you more than I can verbalise. Their messages to me convey their terror for you as the service is cut and privatised. Their messages to me tell me how they stay later and later to check things, keep patients safe,hold things together.
And it’s not right...
And it’s not right...
The public care about the NHS.
The doctors (and other staff) hold it together.
The politicians lie and cut things and blame others and enable private companies to profit from the NHS
It’s wrong. It needs to stop. We all need to wake up and hold government to account🚨
The doctors (and other staff) hold it together.
The politicians lie and cut things and blame others and enable private companies to profit from the NHS
It’s wrong. It needs to stop. We all need to wake up and hold government to account🚨
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