Hi! Hope you are well

This is awful to read. How are there no repercussions for those responsible?!? I feel so much for the children and their families. Parents should be able to trust in schools to provide care and compassion.

Ahem, meet up with an old friend perhaps?

Thanks. I decided to stick within medicine but wanted to leave the NHS and so have switched to the less intense specialty of occupational medicine. I’ve always been into medical education and human factors so hoping to transfer and utilise these skills. For now I’m just getting settled into things.

An amazing and inspiring story. Glad you are enjoying your return. I’m just down the road from you in Edinburgh!

Your profile name seems so suggest you have now returned? How are you finding it?

Thanks. I only recently moved, so far though it’s going well thank you. Changing careers does mean starting again so there is some hard work (and exams!) involved at the start but I know that long term this is the right move for me and our family.

I agree completely as someone who has recently changed careers because I didn’t feel I could be both a good mother and a good anaesthetist. Many people do find a balance between the two but I do believe that many, like me, must also struggle.

All true. There is a commonly acknowledged feeling amongst new mothers that once you have children you become a different “new” person. I never appreciated how profound this metamorphosis would be and how I would struggle to find my new identity at work especially.

This 2021 paper "The female medicla workforce" covers the basics of gender bias, and discusses isses relevent to anaesthetists such as menstruation, fertility, pregnancy and menopause

associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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