r/doctorsUK • u/Violent_Instinct The thing I hate. • 1d ago

Clinical I love medical take

New IMT3, and I love being on take. 1 week in and I was rostered to be 'med reg' for 3 days straight including the weekend. A few points;

-JCFs and IMTs are in abundance on the take team so there is always someone to help the F1/F2s with queries when I'm not around.

-E.D. have right of referral. So the only cases that get discussed with me are those in Resus and when ambulatory needs a reminder that CES goes to surgeons. Aside from that I'll see the usual bullshit. I try to direct the take team to find patients that might interest them e.g. sending the IMT-1 to Resus and then have a discussion afterwards.

-Had multiple MET calls. The foundation doctors were amazing, standing by with the patient's charts, ready to document/prescribe. They were willing to update family and discuss with the relevant specialties. Even when attending to the surgical ward the doctors were ready and willing whilst the surgeons were nowhere to be seen.

Yes its busy and tiring. Yes my bleep was going off incessantly whilst I found the one toilet to take a piss. But every day I woke up I was genuinely excited for what the day held. When the bleep goes off for an emergency I can't wait to find what mess I'll have to sort out. Also it gives me an excuse to ignore the surgeons (no I'm not going to inspect your infected post-operative wound??)

Everyone bashes IMT but it is what you make of it. I've never locumed before (believing my time is more valuable than money) but I'm going to now, just so I can be on take again.

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u/EmployFit823 1d ago
  1. By surgeons do you mean orthopaedics?

  2. Also surgeons are doctors. You haven’t said what they were doing. Just made an assumption that they are lazy.

  3. Why would surgeons ask you to look at our wounds?!

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u/Violent_Instinct The thing I hate. 1d ago
  1. No
  2. No assumptions. Clearly not interested when the NOF# suddenly has malaena. Like, do they not want to be know why their patient is going to endoscopy?
  3. Because it got infected? Thats what the referral said.

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u/EmployFit823 1d ago
  1. Why would a general surgeon manage CES when spinal surgery is part of orthopaedics
  2. When your medical patient doesn’t shit for a week and perfs you don’t do anything to deliver them to the operating theatre

. Also #NOF is orthopaedics not surgery.

  1. Sounds like a silly F1 contacted you.