Careers advice: Paper is essential reading for the tall and beautiful

doi:10.1136/bmj.39086.919051.1F

BMJ 2007;334:58 (13 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.39086.919051.1F

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Paper is essential reading for the tall and beautiful

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My heartfelt thanks to Trilla et al for publishingtheir novel research.¹ I was within a whisker of dedicatingmyself to a specialty that I would not be suited to. I had thoughtthat my analytical mind and desire to understand the patientholistically might have made me a physician. However being dashedlyhandsome and standing proudly at 1.85 m, I discover that I amwholly unsuited to my intended path.

I am queasy around blood, faint at the sightof retractors, cannot use a knife and fork, nor tie my own shoelaces. I am allergic to scrubs, terrified of taking consent,and more clumsy than any evolved primate should ever be. ShouldI be a surgeon? Some would say I am overqualified.

Flummoxed, I find myself with three viable options.At present I hope that late nights and early ward rounds mighttake their toll. Although they will . . . [Full text of this article]

Rhys H Thomas, medical senior house officer

¹ Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester GL1 3NN Rhys-Thomas@doctors.org.uk

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