Absolutely dead right. In my time I have been chased around A&E by a naked
man waving an axe (so who ever said life as a junior doctor was dull?) and
fought an Irishman weilding an open razor. I have had to rescue a houseman
off a window ledge (she was intending to jump) which I didn't like much
since I hate heights.
I once compared notes with a friend of mine who is a truck driver and
decided I had got off lightly.
One needlestick injury? Come on.
A
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> Sent: 14 October 1998 22:08
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> Subject: Re: rich nervously debililtated junior doctor
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> > You guys are beu=ing unduly hard on this girl. On this list,
> above all, I'd
> > have thought that people would recognise that (a) psychological
> illness is as
> > valid as physical illness; (b) work may precipitate such illness. We see
> > enough patients who are not malingerers to understnad that, so
> why punish this
> > poor doctor, if her phobic/anxiety state is such that she can
> barely leave the
> > house. I thought we were trying to gett away from medical machismo.
> >
> Because there are some 'specialities' I'm sure she could have been
> re-trained in which don't need her to be exposed to needles.
> Because she is surely intelligent enough to move out of medicine to
> get another job which will probably pay more than she could ever have
> earned in the NHS.
> Becuase the rest of us (and our families) have to put with with all
> sorts of crap and get by.
>
> Dr David J Plews
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