I talked to 19 past registrars I had trained between 1983–2003. As part of a larger project, we discussed their memories of GP training, and I asked them how they might characterise our trainer–registrar (trainee) relationship. We came up with the following analogous duos:
The Lone Ranger and Tonto (Galloping off together to fight disease with silver bullets).
Inspector Morse and his sidekick Lewis (‘Another beer, sir?’).
Batman, and Robin the Boy Wonder. (Gotham City is a dark and scary place).
Byron and Shelley (‘A restless hedonist peer, and a more socially minded but doomed rebel’).
Detective Sipowitz in NYPD Blue (Imperfect heroes, working above and below the rules to do the right thing). The second part of the duo wasn't defined. Was he another detective — or perhaps a perpetrator?
Asterix and Obelisk (Irreverent, anti-establishment cult folk heroes, undermining Blairite central (Roman) authority. One is stoutish).
Old Scrooge and Bob Cratchit (‘… working by the light of a single candle, oppressed, and forever wanting to be allowed to go home’). …