The Semantics of Healthcare - John wasn't fighting in Afghanistan he was busy being a GP!

[wellingtongoose]

As a medical student and soon to be doctor, I often watch TV programs about medicine and despair. Not because the likes of Casualty and Holby City (for those of you who don’t watch British TV these are hospital dramas) are not entertaining, but rather because they have a habit of misleading the public on what real doctors can do.

So in the spirit

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[keerawa]

One of these days, we Soldier!John fangirls need to get together and give him a CV that makes more sense lol
I tried here: Security Check.

I just watched an amazing Canadian series called 'Combat Hospital' set in and around the military hospital at Kandahar Airbase in Afghanistan. It would be a terrific resource for people looking for some authentic details for John's service.

My partner attended Bart's at the same time John would have. He was the first one in his family to attend university, and they couldn't give him any money towards it. Tuition was free, but you had to cover your own living expenses and books. Steven took a 'gap year' off of school at 18 and worked like crazy to save up enough money to afford it.

Also, Bart's was very posh, very upper class. It takes a certain attitude for a kid from a working class background to decide, not only to be a doctor, but to train at Bart's. (A bit like the Oxford of the British teaching hospitals.) Steven had more in common with the nurses, and spent most of his time hanging out with them.

[ariadnechan]

I like your cv!

But i think he had double carrer
Academy official school military
Medical school at Barts

So his captain grade was earn in the military and he was acting as med of his unit

But i like your puninchement idea too, gives him a lot of deepth

[wellingtongoose]

Actually I agree with you. I just wrote part 2 of Semantics in Healthcare and I found a way of making John even more BMAF than being an Army Doctor. Feel free to read it at http://wellingtongoose.livejournal.com/7885.html and tell me what you think!

[wellingtongoose]

I'm actually trying to find Combat Hospital to watch now, thanks for the suggestion. I've found medical school to be quite elitist too, although no one wants to admit it. I can understand what your husband felt like when there are consultant's children talking about how their dad is going to be the department head...