I don't wanna do surgery!!!!!!!!!!!!
We just changed jobs and, after 8 months of medicine (on the same ward, but working for different teams), I find myself working for no less than three consultants, one SASG*, one registrar and one nightmare SHO (have not met him yet - but from all I've heard of him, I'm not sure I want to!)
I'm not the biggest fan of change. In fact that's putting it lightly: it took me a whole year to get over going to university (I'd never left home, let alone thousands of miles away). This fact added to my dislike of surgery has not endeared me to it at all!
Actually, its not the surgery I dislike per se. I am very happy in a theatre, and if one is involved (even if it is only holding a retractor), it can be very interesting.
What I do dislike, is that even though there are still teams, the teamwork is at the operating theatre level - the PRHOs are the ward monkeys, while the rest are the organ-grinders (sometimes literally) who live in the OT, only to leave for short periods of time in order to do flash ward rounds, consent patients, and see referrals.
I'll miss the banter I had on my previous ward; and even the long-drawn ward rounds (at least I got to write legibly!). I already miss the people I worked with. Oh well.
I'm trying to tell myself that its all a learning experience, and that in the future I and my patients will benefit from this; but there's one thing I'm already convinced of: its going to be a looong four months.
*SASG = Associate specialist and staff grade - ie higher than a registrar, but not a consultant because either the person has not had enough experience in this country, or at some point they stopped doing higher exams (but I'm not sure how that makes them more qualified than registrars; and their pay is similar to a registrar's)
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