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Acceptable Reasons To Cry As A Foundation Doctor

We've All Been There

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1. You faint into the patient mid surgery.


2. You take a fantastic history and post-take* it with your consultant. The consultant ensures that you have asked all the right questions (judges you in front of a large audience) then asks the patient the same questions, getting the complete opposite answers. You are the gawping, sweaty doctor reversing behind the curtain.

*post-take: the junior who clerked the patient summarises this to the consultant who then consolidates a plan.


3. You are nearing the end of your nightshift and around 5:30am you rest your head on the desk for a blissful and much needed eye rest. BLEEEEP 6am observations have begun and there's 10,000 oldies who apparently need to see the only doctor immediately.


4. When your Group and Save* gets rejected for the third time on the same patient.

*Group and Save: The blood test needed before you can transfuse a patient some blood. It requires A LOT of details written on the tiny blood sample bottle with 1million percent accuracy (and rightly so). I was once rejected because my 'a' looked like an 'e'. sigh.


5. You take your time writing a beautifully legible page of notes and examination findings only to find you've done it in the wrong patients's notes. WAAAAA.


6. You get your first complaint. Horrible. Suck it up! There will be many, many worse to come.


7. All the boys took the size small scrub tops and you actually can't wear the medium/large without flashing your nips.


8. Your 5th coffee of the morning has not made you any more awake.


9. When one of your seniors makes you out to be a complete incompetent idiot in front of a patient/10 of your peers. Thanks, bro.


10. Someone tells you that you are slow. Sound advice, cheers.


11. A middle grade asks you to do your fourth PR of the day. Why, oh why.


12. You have not brought enough snacks for your nightshift. Hangry and tired ain't a pretty sight.


13. The 5th oldie shouting 'NURRRRSE' at you because 1. you are female and therefore obviously a nurse, and 2. they think you have time to make them a nice cup of tea.


14. When ask for a single day off 1.5 years in advance to get MARRIED and they put you long day on-call.


15. 9.5 hours into the nightshift and you finally get some peace whilst having the biggest wee of your life.


16. When you ask a patient what they think is wrong and suddenly the beautiful, cute, sweet little grandma turns into Frankenstein boxing a stunned bunny rabbit - WELL YOU'RE THE DOCTOR AREN'T YOU? YOU TELL ME


17. A patient projectile vomited on your favourite top. Worse, it still smells after its 3rd wash.


18. The mortuary. Its an odd, odd place.


19. Seeing the sun rising after your first nightshift on call. Legit emotional.


20. You have to work Christmas (for now, and ever more)


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