Monthly Archives: September 2013

End of Week 4 – How to laugh

Posted on September 26, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Medicine is a serious subject. You spend the vast majority of your day dealing with life and death, or in my case, learning about horrible things which can kill you and your friends. Or at least that’s what you tell … Continue reading →

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Week 4- How to piss off a nurse.

Posted on September 24, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

“Can I have some help in here?!” It’s something you never want to hear, especially as a medical student walking out of the hospital after a long day. But today as I was walking out of the SAU (Surgical Assessment … Continue reading →

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End of week 3 – Burnout

Posted on September 21, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Part of me can’t believe that I have been back at uni for 3 weeks already,  but when I sit down and think about it; the second of September feels like it was a very long time ago. Already the … Continue reading →

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Week 3 – How to solve the A&E Crisis

Posted on September 17, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Firstly, I just got quite a shock when I clicked on my stats page… whoever has been reading all of my posts in the last 2 hours, you’ve managed to significantly inflate my ego. Thanks. So, today I’m going to … Continue reading →

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How UK medical school works

Posted on September 16, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

I was struggling for inspiration as to what to write this weekend, really did not have a clue. Fortunately twitter came to my rescue. A conversation with an American Medical student/blogger (read her blog here) resulted in us both admitting … Continue reading →

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Week 2 – How not to get sued.

Posted on September 12, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Week 2 – How not to get sued. Last week..well over a week ago actually (oops) I wrote the GMC coming in and telling us how not to get sacked. This week the uni has given us some lectures on … Continue reading →

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Day 1 – How not to get sacked.

Posted on September 3, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

I started my second year of medical school yesterday and unsurprisingly I have not received a penny from either NHS bursaries or from student finance. This means that (until they pull their collective fingers out) I am skint. It is … Continue reading →

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Natural medicine aka witchcraft

Posted on September 2, 2013 by thegradmedstudent

Do you know what really pisses me off? Well, a lot of things do. But more than anything, it is things like this: If you go on the health tab on the Reader you see a shed load of these … Continue reading →

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