Life and loathes of a new doctor: Carry on nursing

When you eventually start working, forget about trying to impress your senior colleagues. On the surgical wards, especially, you never actually work with them. They appear for 10 minutes each morning and evening and spin round the ward, glancing over each patient. As long as the patients still look pink and responsive, the surgeons are happy. The people you work with and rely on all day every day are the nurses. These …