Sickness and healthcare

Today I’m off sick. I feel horribly guilty about it, I know the others will have to work really hard to cover me but I feel rubbish. Basically I felt really sick yesterday despite some IM cyclizine (ouch! we do that to patients?!) and today feel a bit like I was run over by a bus! I’m really run down and now that I think about it I haven’t had a proper meal since sunday and yet I just don’t fancy anything. Must try and look after myself a bit better!

My parents are having a hard time getting their heads round my job. I’ve tried to prepare them for the fact that I’ll never be home on time and often don’t have time to eat, but I think they think I do it on purpose! I never truly believed the junior doctors when they said that I should drink and eat when I had the chance because you never know when it might happen again, but it’s true.

I went to teaching on tuesday and it was a lecture from a guy who wants to speed up waiting times for patients (very noble) by getting people discharged earlier in the day. One of his suggestions was getting us to write discharge scripts while on the consultant ward rounds. Yeah, right! Mostly we don’t have time to write in the notes, let alone write scripts, who is going to wait around for that?! It made me pretty angry really.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this post, my head’s not really all there at the moment and I have other things on my mind, but I really think that there is something fundamentally wrong with a system which does not allow junior doctors time to eat and in which completely unrealistic tasks are imposed on us.

Enough of medicine. I’m going onto nights tomorrow (bleugh) so better do something more fun. Like wander round Sainsburys and see if there’s anything I actually want to eat! Sorry for the crap post, I’ll try harder next time