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|   | Subject: First Day
Posted Aug 3, 2010 by  Tufty | | Post: 1
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...well, actually, my last day of shadowing another doctor, but he left me to do a fair bit of the work. 
So, today I started prescribing as-required paracetamol, writing request forms, checking blood results, copying up drug charts, and making sure everyone who required blood thinners had some written up before I went home. All in all, I spent nine hours (with only a toilet stop and a shove-sandwich-in-mouth break) constantly doing things, and I don't recall making a single life-or-death decision. I doubt it will stay like that, but as first days go it could have been a lot worse. I know some people who are starting work as a doctor on night shifts, and I don't envy them much.
Alex 
You did get in a quick round of golf after lunch, didn't you?
Ookay... That was your last hour.
What did you do for the rest of the day? 
 with the second day,  Alex
And all the days after! 
Yes, good luck!
|  | Subject: First Day
Posted Aug 6, 2010 by Tufty
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Thanks guys
Worked 11.5 hours yesterday (I was on 8.30 til 5.30), today wasn't so bad (same theoretical hours, only they were almost realistic).
 A half day so early on!
|  | Subject: First Day
Posted Aug 8, 2010 by Tufty
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Oh yes!
In order to balance that out, we spent yesterday getting soaked through by the rain while walking back from Homebase with a hacksaw with which to cut some blackout blinds to size so that we can sleep during the day when we do the nights part of our rota.
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