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Life and loathes of a new doctor: Putting it into perspective
BMJ 2005; 330 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0505199 (Published 01 May 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:0505199
- Stephen Goldie, medical preregistration house officer1
- 1Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley
It's the small, but infuriating and exasperating things in hospital medicine that really rip my knitting. Each day there are numerous obstacles and barriers put in the way of a house officer. They test and try us and push our coping strategies to the limit.
It's so annoying when the pharmacy telephones to insist that you rewrite an entire discharge prescription because you've written tablets instead of capsules. Or when the phlebotomist is …
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