My attempt to explain what I do, using only the ten hundred most common words:
I am a doctor. I work in a hospital, helping to make sick people better. As I am quite new to being a doctor, I have to change job every few months. I hope to become a family doctor and help people of all ages. My job is very busy. I look at people who are not feeling ( Read more... )

I've pretty much stopped using Livejournal, haven't I? Since I started work, I rarely have time to read my flist, let alone update myself. I'm not sure I'll ever really get back into the habit of writing regularly, and I didn't even do the end-of-year-meme this time, but as you may have gathered, 2011 was one hell of a year! I am now a qualified ( ( Read more... )

I always say I'll send out Christmas/holiday cards, and then don't bother; but this year I have a renewed sense of purpose, and I'm worried that I'm losing touch with a lot of people I used to be close to. So! All comments will be screened - post your address if you would like a card!

These are sentences exactly as typed by medical secretaries in NHS Greater Glasgow.

1. The patient has no previous history of suicide.

2. Patient has left her white blood cells at another hospital.

3. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.

4. She has no rigors or shaking ( Read more... )

You Who Never Arrived, by Rainer Maria Rilke

You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of
the next moment. All the immense
images in me -- the far-off, deeply-felt
landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and
( Read more... )

He Wishes for the Cloths of HeavenHad I the heavens' embroidered cloths ( Read more... )

I applied for the academic job! I submitted both application forms on Sunday; because it's a national process, every deanery makes offers on the same day, which this year is 14th September. Which seems a little silly in my deanery's case - they don't interview, and it can't really take them three months to read four 200-word answers per candidate, ( Read more... )

I wanted to link to this on Facebook, but didn't want to ruin anyone's day by inadvertently triggering them: ( potential ED triggers )

Because all the cool kids are doing it - ask me anything!(In other news, I am HOME. I don't know if anyone remembers, but about a year I posted something about how there is a doctor here who does exactly the research I'm interested in - she is now supervising my SSM! The project has its teething troubles, but I like the department and the hospital ( Read more... )

If you see this, post a poem in your own LJ today.

( Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Tennyson )