#resident doctors

[dxmedstudent]

The BMA student branch are raising awareness of how often resident doctors' employment details and rota are shared with the doctors at extremely short notice.

This has been a longstanding problem - I can vouch for waiting for rotas and placement information at the last minute.

[ratantics]

I'm pretty convinced at this point that none of the parties (apart from Greens and Lib Dems) actually want to save the NHS and would love to swap it for an American style health insurance system if they knew it wouldn't cost them the next election.

The only person who I can realistically see doing it is Farage and right now it's looking like he's going to get his chance if things carry on the way they are...

Merry Christmas! 🎅

[obakanosandoitchi]

just sutured someone for the first time, it was a scalp.

the surgery rotation has just started and it's already giving me tachycardia

[whitecoatblackmarket]

Having to manage the emotions of male attendings as a senior resident 😑

I understand you are tired and are having some big feelings today in the OR…but stop taking it out on me or everyone around us.

I stg when I’m a chief resident I’m just going to outright start gentle parenting every attending who gets unnecessarily testy with me 😂

[maureenrn]

I miss baby docs. I miss the camaraderie. I miss the education both ways. I miss being able to remind them that they are a real doctor and to stop putting themselves down. My baby docs had all the education. The reason I can tell them what the attending in the ICU is probably going to order: real life hands on experience, the been there learned from it phenomenon that they were going through. I love their passion, compassion, listening skills, intensity, and even their fear. The fear we all have, even the most confident of us, that makes us take the time to ensure that the decisions we are making are the best ones we can make at that time. The decision is the one that will lead to the outcome the patient desires if possible. I loved being the mama bear nurse that reminded them to take care of themselves. I loved that in times of trouble in my personal life and they walked in the room while my daughter was the patient they knew me and we already had a connection. I could trust them not to bullshit me because I don’t do well with bullshit. Lay the facts out however hard it is to hear and let’s figure out how to make our way forward. To all the resident physicians that helped me grow as a nurse I want to say Thank you. Thank you for treating me like a member of the team. Thank you for being by my side as we cared for those critically ill patients. I hope I end up somewhere with residents again!

[silwenworld]

the hunger strike of resident doctors in Poland

I usually try to stay away from the politics…I’m just tired of justifing not chosing between lesser evil. Right now, there is something going on in my country that I can’t stay silent.  That thing is the Hunger Strike of young Residental Doctors. I’m gonna be in their place in something like 4 years. Being a resident in Poland means working over 300h per month, taking 24h shifts sometimes more than 3 times a week, because all hospitals are understaffed, while getting an amount off money that will hardly allow a single room renting apartment in a big city together with buying course books and all… filling a residency takes to 6 years, so you’re normally around 32 years old when you finish, that is, if you managed to get it at a first try (there is a girl in my group 5 years older than me for example). A patient needs to wait for a treatment even to 5 years if nor longer, some of them managed to die before that. That’s not normal! 2 weeks ago a young residental doctor died during her shift from overwork, she was 28 years old. Our surgery professor ask students to come early to asist during medical procedures because they don’t have enough staff to perfo0 residents participate in the hunger strike, more are joining them, others support them on the streets… it’s been almost a week… a week without food for some of those people and yet the govermant still refuse to see the problem. They can’t see a problem that increasing the amount of vacancies on the medical universities while not inceasing the residencial vacancies is not the solution. They don’t see that it’s not normal for people under 30 to die during their shift, because they weren’t enough people to run a hospital. They refuse to see that waiting over 15h to be accepted to see a doctor is not normal. They can’t see that doctors spending more time filling in the paper forms that treating patients is not how it should be! Just how can they sleep at night knowing that there are people willing to sleep on the foor and refusing to take any food for over 108h and not  coming to talk to them? To listen to their rights? Not only their rights but also those of the patients.

I really love to become a doctor, I want to help people  but I so don’t want to die because I had to work for 72h straght and then some…

[whitecoatblackmarket]

When you’re burnt out from working 80 hours a week and on the edge of losing your damn mind from sleep deprivation but then someone gives you a small snack or you have time to sit down and drink a cup of water:

Today I had the chance to drink a whole cup of water between OR cases and I almost cried of happiness. When the highlight of your day is that you had the chance to pee once, something is wrong.

Residents like me work 80 hours a week (sometimes more) for what calculates out to be less than minimum wage because this is how residencies are structured and because we are the last line between patients and unsafe care. You didn’t hire enough nurses? Have the resident remove/place foleys and NG tubes. You didn’t hire enough transport staff? Have the resident transport patients. I can’t in good conscience let my patients have less than the standard of care, but it becomes unsustainable when you don’t have enough staff. To top this all off, my hospital CEO got a raise of millions of dollars this year, but my raise to next year doesn’t even keep up with inflation. People justify this treatment of residents by saying that oh well we will be rich when we’re attendings, as if having a higher salary in the future justifies this kind of exploitation. I know residents right now who are struggling to afford healthcare for their children, who struggle to find affordable housing within the area we are required to live because of home call. There is simply no justification for the amount of work we do compared with our pay (or the hours we work period).

Maybe this is just a long way of saying please be kind to residents in the hospital. We work really hard within a really broken system and care a lot about our patients.

[obakanosandoitchi]

so this has been January with lots of new reading material but also the nostalgia of being back in the hospital where I did med school.

I'd like to point out the fourth sentient pillow on my couch in the third picture 😌

also I got my grubby hands on a black honey lipstick that I paid for with my adult money. I also used the aforementioned adult money to pay for my family and couples therapy course 🥲 which wasn't as pleasant but more necessary.