by Anonymous | 1st Sep 2020 | Humanity, Identity
For the first time in six months, I felt I had a place in the world again. Six long months of uncertainty, of worry, or wondering if I would ever be needed in the ways that I was previously pre Covid. Not that we are post Covid at the moment, but we are...
by Anonymous | 23rd Jun 2020 | Leadership
“We had this great registrar once,” two consultants told me. “She was amazing. We would get in at 7.30 in the morning and all the patients were prepped for theatre and ready. We could leave each night at a reasonable time, knowing she would sort out the team – for six...
by Anonymous | 6th Aug 2019 | Culture, Leadership
How would we cope if we were left to our own devices? No bosses, no managers, no underlings? Would there be a difference to the way we worked together depending on our educational level? Can team work be developed? These three questions have been swimming around in my...
by Anonymous | 1st Aug 2019 | Clinician Stories, Culture
It was my first ward sisters post. It was on ‘that ward’. You know, the one that everyone talks about? The staff are always rude, (apparently) the patients have a terrible experience and it always has well, an ‘aroma’ about it. Colleagues looked at me with total...
by Anonymous | 12th Jul 2019 | Leadership
You are the best kind of leader there is. You work harder than any of us and inspire us to try to match that effort. You trust us to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way, and when we do you say thank you. If we don’t, you ask if there is a reason....
