The more you know...

Changing jobs every 4 months has got to be one of the best (but hardest) things about being a junior doctor. If you’ve not loved your job, you get to move on! And if you have loved it, well you get to go and try something new and learn new skills! You feel more like a real doctor with every rotation. And you’re so much more empathetic with the specialities you’ve worked with. No more bogus referrals and a much better working relationship with other departments. Win win!

On the Tuesday you feel like you’ve got your shit together. You know how things work. You can work the complex system. You’ve made lots of friends, and maybe some enemies too. You’re confident in your abilities. There are aspects of the job you’ve hated all along but all of a sudden you’re becoming sentimental and wishing you could stay. “Aw the shifts when I was covering A&E, 3 wards, maternity triage, labour ward and theatres were actually such great shifts. Loved them. It’s good to be kept on your toes!”

You always have great ambition to leave your clinical areas well organised, with a handover and a guide for the docs taking over from you to ease their transition. But then you realise that today is just as crazy and short-staffed as any other day and that all goes out the window. Keeping the patients alive another day will just have to be good enough.

Changeover is always a bittersweet time. After four months in a job, you really start to feel like you know what you are doing. You finally feel like part of a team, it’s a comfortable place to be.

Then you start at your next speciality, which you may not have seen since sometime halfway through medical school. You don’t know the team and you don’t know how anything works, but you have to work your best to keep up with it all. It’s a chaotic time, and I think you’ve done a really good job of explaining why.

Stop. Bombing. Hospitals.

Animeyed - Self Portraits by Flora Borsi

From Hungary, Flora Borsi is a young and very talented visual artist and photographer. Her exquisite photography and manipulation thematically focuses on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams to create breathtaking surreal visuals. Flora’s technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss.