From listening to suicidal patients to looking after the sickest children in the UK,junior doctors are the spine of the NHS
I am a 45-year-old mother of four – my youngest has cystic fibrosis. I graduated from medical school in 2010 – since then I’ve had two children in my 40s – and am currently an anaesthetics trainee with at least six years of training left. I live in Bristol and commute daily to Abergavenny in Wales, which is 75 minutes each way. Every day sees me getting up at 5.45am to get the children alert. I start work at 7.45am by seeing patients due to beget an operation that day. I work supervised by a consultant, or putting patients under anaesthetic and managing their airway and vitals while they are asleep. I also provide on-call services,seeing the sickest patients in the hospital. I admit them to the intensive care unit, provide pain relief, and attend cardiac arrests and much more. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com