TY - JOUR T1 - The finish line JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 788 LP - 789 DO - 10.3399/bjgp09X472764 VL - 59 IS - 567 AU - Majid Rehman Khan Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/59/567/788.abstract N2 - My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.My apologies to necessity, if I'm mistaken, after all.Please don't be angry, happiness, That I take you as my due.May my dead be patient with the way my memories fadeMy apologies to time, For all the world I overlook each second. (Wislawa Szymborska, Under One Small Star). This ward is set up in such a way as to have eight patients in each section, immediately in front of the nurse's station, behind which I am standing. I prepare the blood results before the consultant comes and asks me whether I have any answers to his questions, and if not why not, since they are the same questions that he asked me yesterday.I have my share of the work, and my colleague (another SHO) has her's. I am pleased that there has been a just division of labour, and in any case her presence is always reassuring since she is more experienced than I, and so can help me out of the occasional awkward moment.He arrives, and I observe he is in a good mood, and the ward round begins.I, the most junior, push the notes trolley around, and thankfully she does most of the talking. She is preparing for MRCP, and so he asks her all sorts of questions to which she gives all … ER -