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My Experiences and Advice
 My Experiences and Advice ... qualifications? What are the ups and downs of the profession?Newest Review: ... anatomy, but we were only 18... we got used to it, and got on with it, but the smell of the preservative, formaldehyde, still lingers in my memory. On my first ward round, an elderly gentleman called me over to the bedside. I leant towards him, to hear him ask, in a very loud voice; "Double scotch on the rocks, please." It doesn't seem like much at the time, but that was the ... more ... first demented person I had seen face to face. And I still remember it now. A year later, I witnessed my first death. A lady in her mid-sixties, with liver failure. We knew she was going to die, and she decided to do it when the Senior House Officer an...more |
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My Experiences and Advice: Art, science, or just black humour? (1803 words)
by chrispitts - written on 17.07.02 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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"I'm a doctor." That usually gets one of four responses: 1. "Are you? Wow. That's cool. You must be so clever." 2. "Are you? Yuck, I could never do that, all that blood and stuff." 3. "Are you? Right, I've got this pain in my knee..." 4. "Yeah, and?..." Out of all of these, I far prefer the last one. Why should people be impressed or in awe of doctors. We're just people, after all! Not particularly clever, or brave, or sadistic. We just happened to choose this career, and we get on with it, just like anyone else with any other job gets on with theirs. But there's ...
