Well, it's been nigh on six months since my last blog entry. So what's my excuse? To be honest, I just don't have the time to be as rampantly self indulgent any more. It's amazing how time consuming angst-ridden flights of winging can be. I started work as a junior Doctor in August and the time has just flown since then. I was a fairly disinterested medical student. I was never one of those students who experienced such burning desire to be a doctor. Anything but. At my school, clever girls with no strong calling in life went on to well paid careers in Medicine or law, and my already sloth-like tendencies meant that a degree without essays looked incredibly attractive. So you could say I did medicine for all the wrong reasons.

Medicine is not an arena for the apathetic. The responsibility and influence are huge, and there are few careers with the potential to wreak such damage on people's lives. I'm sure it is irresponsible, to say the least, to take on such a role, without putting your entire energy and attention into it. That's what the party line is anyway, but then I went into medicine purely for the prestige and the money.