‘Really, you want to be a GP? Are you sure? But you'll be wasted there … It's so boring working in a surgery’
And that was how my career move was received. My anaesthetist uncle had made his view very clear.
So here I am, a GP registrar in Bolton. It's been 3 months now since starting and, phew, has it been tough. Admittedly I didn't have great expectations before starting. I was ready for my break after A&E slave labour. It was chill-out time now. A few surgeries here, a few half days there and long, very long lunch breaks to fit in shopping, browsing the internet and well, daytime TV. I thought being a GP, and a trainee at that, wouldn't involve too much work and then I would …