Dealing with unsolicited advice
When you’re trying to change career, receiving unsolicited advice from people around you is a common and infuriating experience. Ex-doctor Anjalee Perera offers six strategies to deal with it.
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So… what do you do? Part 2
I’m having a bit of a nightmare navigating the delicate social quagmire of speaking to another doctor when you’re a patient who also happens to be an ex-doctor. It’s always a bit strange being treated and cared for when your job is to treat and care for others, but now that I’m no longer working clinically, it feels even …
Giving up my license to practice
It felt so cool getting my full GMC registration. In a weird, geeky way it felt like the James Bond part of a medical degree – a Licence to Practice! I was strangely proud and excited. But today I gave it up. It was so easy to do – just a simple form to fill …
Which way to vote? My 5 main dilemmas…
There’s not long left to vote in the BMA referendum on the new junior contract… but what is the right choice? Yes or No?
Guest post: what we signed up for
I am so pleased to be able to publish this guest blog by River, writer of Hanging Round the Inkwell. She’s a doctor who’s had her fair share of bends in the medical career road, and talking to her is a solace to me. Her reflection is a pithy insight into something every doctor has either thought …
The forgotten six thousand (guest blog)
One of the benefits of writing this blog is that it’s given me the chance to meet other medics who have decided to do different things with their lives. I’m so pleased to introduce this guest blog by theconfusedmedic, a fourth year medical student who has currently interrupted her studies to pursue other things outside medicine. She …
Trouble in Paradise: the Type A personality effect
I feel very rested. I’ve just come back from a wonderful skiing holiday in the French Alps, and aside from the terror of voluntarily throwing myself down a frozen mountain, it was a chance for me to relax and reset. I did a bit of soul searching while I was away. There’s something about fresh …
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Officially Unemployed
When I talked to my dad about my resignation, it was difficult to bear the disappointment in his voice when he said: “So, what, you’re officially unemployed now are you?” He didn’t say it at all cruelly – it was just the statement of the awful truth that hurt. It was qpainfully real. I hit …