And So It Begins

Hi There! 


I'm a late thirty something year old hospital doctor living in London.  I am just the sort of person Prof J Mierion Thomas thinks is the downfall of the NHS... 

• A heavy service user who doesn't know when to see their GP or when to go to A&E?
• A wineaholic in denial, brought in to ED by ambulance on an almost daily basis?
• A nasty, large, private company helping to carve up the NHS into bite sized chunks for resale?

No, none of the above - the truth is  much, much worse!  I'm a new mummy - the scurge of the modern NHS, wasting my training and making a mockery out of my debt to society!   (I wonder where spending days and days in private practice factor on Prof JMT's moral radar, or what his consultant radiologist wife and 14 year old daughter think of his ramblings...)


I've been a mummy for 6 months now - unexpectedly, as we didn't think we could have children (a tale for another time?)  I love it, and am just about getting the hang of it now (you watch my little one up the ante now I've typed that out!)   I thought I would start a blog to chronicle the last few months of my maternity leave and my eventual return to work in the Summer, for a giggle/cry at a later date!


I have always been someone who 'lives to work' and I love, love, love my job!  The way I (finally) see it, I have given hundreds of unpaid overtime hours to my beloved NHS, so I am desperately trying not to wish my maternity leave away and to enjoy my baby's special first months!  My other half 'works to live', which has generated some tension, as he would rather be at home, while I really miss being at work!  It will be interesting to see how my views have changed when confronted with my first day back on the wards, although that day still remains 4 (short?) months away.


I'll try and recant some of the important milestones on my journey so far, and look to the future as we all try to work out how this mummy/hospital doctor thing is going to pan out...