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It's finally sunny in London/Luton/Basildon where I've been based for the last couple of months, and a combination of a wonderful clinical team where the consultant never fails to make his patients smile, extra daylight hours and an excellent weekend away with two people I've dearly missed have made me feel less like my life is devoid of all meaning.
I am only beginning to realise that when people tell me you have to really like sitting for exams if you want to be a doctor, they speak nothing but the truth. The frustrating thing is that some times it feels like you're spending your life preparing for a theatrical performance where you just have to make a big show of going through the motions, but the occasional triumphant flash of inspiration still makes it worthwhile when I realise that there are so many different facets to my work, little clues and signs which nudge you along towards making a diagnosis and managing a case successfully, which is really what it's all about at the end of the day when we're done with jumping through the hoops. The main challenge lies in managing to have a life outside of all of it, and doing fun and fulfilling things in between plodding through the daily routine... something which I've neglected for a large part of my uni life, I think.
In other news, I am home-bound in exactly 3 months and will be doing my housejobs at SGH and CGH (aaaaah back to the land of the abbreviations) starting in August. My knees turn to jelly at the thought but I am looking forward to finally becoming a vaguely useful entity for a change.
I am only beginning to realise that when people tell me you have to really like sitting for exams if you want to be a doctor, they speak nothing but the truth. The frustrating thing is that some times it feels like you're spending your life preparing for a theatrical performance where you just have to make a big show of going through the motions, but the occasional triumphant flash of inspiration still makes it worthwhile when I realise that there are so many different facets to my work, little clues and signs which nudge you along towards making a diagnosis and managing a case successfully, which is really what it's all about at the end of the day when we're done with jumping through the hoops. The main challenge lies in managing to have a life outside of all of it, and doing fun and fulfilling things in between plodding through the daily routine... something which I've neglected for a large part of my uni life, I think.
In other news, I am home-bound in exactly 3 months and will be doing my housejobs at SGH and CGH (aaaaah back to the land of the abbreviations) starting in August. My knees turn to jelly at the thought but I am looking forward to finally becoming a vaguely useful entity for a change.