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New year's resolutions check-in:
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star, @Tollund_Man4 and @self_made_human?
No gym this week, but mostly because I was traveling for 48 hours and just started a new, extremely hectic job. I'll give myself a pass for once, but I intend to go tomorrow.
What’s your new job?
@Throwaway05 is correct. New rotation, after a mercifully long vacation extended somewhat involuntarily by geopolitical strife. I've been enjoying it so far, for a value of enjoyment which encompasses and excuses being incredibly stressed. At least my colleagues seem nice: a cute Dutch doctor said I have a great voice. She suggested I should be a voice actor, a compliment I have carefully filed away for later. And here I was thinking that I only had the face for radio...
Pshh skip the meet cute hoss, I want to know what the rotation is.
Busy......Emergency?
Goddammit, I wanted to talk about cute but intimidatingly competent colleagues complimenting me. It's liaison psychiatry.
Oh there's no rush. Get well soon.
Oh no, I was guessing that ED was the rotation.
Why is your CL service busy? Do your surgeons not understand how capacity works?*
*This insult of European surgeons not guaranteed to match the medico-legal requirements of British healthcare.
Sir. You are getting slow in your old age, that was a joke :(
I'm not sure if the workload I'm experiencing is typical, but it's almost always safe to bet that the NHS is understaffed and overworked. I'd say this counts as hectic but not unbearable, the primary annoyance is running around a very large hospital, and I get very lost half the time.
(It is very rare for anyone outside of psych to understand how capacity works. I barely understood the UK version until several months within psych, I was winging it till then.)
The meme in the U.S. is that the majority of Psych (and to a lesser extent Neuro) consults are inappropriate. Both tend to get Delirium/TME consults for which the recommendation is "fix the underlying medical problem" (with a side helping of "no this 85 year old grandma does not have late onset schizophrenia). Psych also gets capacity consults - any physician can determine capacity and should be able to do so unless something weird is going on. You call Psych if mental illness is complicating things only.
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