So, after hearing ‘What is being a doctor like?’, or ‘So you did medicine…so are you a doctor now or…what do you do?’ many a time since I’ve graduated, as well as receiving a fair few messages or comments on social media from people considering pursuing medicine and wondering what it’s like, I figured it might be helpful to reflect a little on just that. and House give the world an impression of what we do day to day, but trust me, that’s a glamourised, shiny view, and besides that, watching these shows still doesn’t reaaally explain what our day job involves. Television programmes like Grey’s Anatomy, E.R. On New Year’s Day, I started the first of seven night shifts straight, and like I say, reflecting on that on my week off afterwards brought the idea to write about what it’s like to actually BE a doctor to me. It’s a brilliant place to work, one of the best in the country by objective and subjective opinion, and I love it there. I work in a busy tertiary Dublin (Ireland) hospital, and bar six months in a peripheral placement that was part of my training, I have been based in the same hospital, and I’m very grateful for that. Many of you will know that my day job is that of a junior doctor, and that I’m in my third year practising full-time. The idea for this article came to me after a week of pretty intense night shifts just after the new year.
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