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I would completely agree with Dr Spence. What's worse, this seems to extend beyond humour and also to banter, one of the best shields for burnout and stress-diffusal. One of the many unique things that make medicine attractive is the comraderie and the exchanges amongst colleagues. Even amongst juniors there is a feeling of increasing censorship and that the walls have ears. This can make a grim busy oncall period grimmer still. A propos: seeing 'Doctor in the House' again recently made me feel like I was watching a parallel universe, and wonder whether that period of medicine ever really existed...
Re: That joke isn’t funny any more
I would completely agree with Dr Spence. What's worse, this seems to extend beyond humour and also to banter, one of the best shields for burnout and stress-diffusal. One of the many unique things that make medicine attractive is the comraderie and the exchanges amongst colleagues. Even amongst juniors there is a feeling of increasing censorship and that the walls have ears. This can make a grim busy oncall period grimmer still. A propos: seeing 'Doctor in the House' again recently made me feel like I was watching a parallel universe, and wonder whether that period of medicine ever really existed...
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