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Levels of seniority in Medicine

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  • #32
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    You know him and dont know yet you wont give us vital information and expect us to know?

    I thought it was a simple question! Like, you have gobsheen, supervisory gobsheen, managerial gobsheen, Head Gobsheen of the gobsheen department, then the King of the Gobsheens.

    It appears it's not so simple. Or perhaps, nobody has a clue.


  • #33
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »

    It appears it's not so simple. Or perhaps, nobody has a clue.

    I have answered your question 2 times already.


  • #34
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    I have answered your question 2 times already.

    Indeed and you haven't! In fact, in your post prior to this you declared that I was expecting you to know something without giving you sufficient information!


  • #35
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    the fellowship is an exam.

    you do your intern year, SHO years, registrar years and senior registrar years in whatever field you want to pursue. if you want to become a consultant you will need to become a member of the royal college of surgeons or the royal college of physicians.
    the fellowship exam is another rung on that ladder.

    mrcs - member of the royal college of surgeons
    frcs - fellow of the rcs

    you can become a consultant without the fellowship but you've a better chance if you have it, especially if it's a position that a lot of people are going for.

    if you don't know if you were a surgery case or a medicine case, then go by the consultants title. all physicians are called Dr., and all surgeons are called Mr.


  • #36
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    Indeed and you haven't! In fact, in your post prior to this you declared that I was expecting you to know something without giving you sufficient information!

    We dont know this person you are on about, this is getting confusing.


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  • #37
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    the fellowship is an exam.

    you do your intern year, SHO years, registrar years and senior registrar years in whatever field you want to pursue. if you want to become a consultant you will need to become a member of the royal college of surgeons or the royal college of physicians.
    the fellowship exam is another rung on that ladder.

    mrcs - member of the royal college of surgeons
    frcs - fellow of the rcs

    you can become a consultant without the fellowship but you've a better chance if you have it, especially if it's a position that a lot of people are going for.

    if you don't know if you were a surgery case or a medicine case, then go by the consultants title. all physicians are called Dr., and all surgeons are called Mr.

    Finally!
    A concise answer. Thank you!!!!

    I wasn't the one who was concerned as to whether I was medical or surgical - it was the doctors who were arguing - the surgical team won and got me as the prize lol...


  • #38
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Btw - in case I have confused some of you, my query in relation to fellowship has nothing to do with the surgical and medical team arguing. I just used that to display that I was quite aware of the difference between the two faculties of medicine.


  • #39
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    - it was the doctors who were arguing - the surgical team won and got me as the prize lol...

    Are you sure they are qualified doctors that they dont know this information?
    lol


  • #40
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Are you sure they are qualified doctors that they dont know this information?
    lol

    Lol, All I know is that the surgical guy came in to ask me the same questions for the 10th time over, having being previously been under the medical team, and I asked him what about the medical teams' suggestions and he started ranting that you cannot diagnose a patient on blood tests alone blah blah.... Then I was transferred from medical to surgical care. I preferred the medical guys! :D


  • #41
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    Lol, All I know is that the surgical guy came in to ask me the same questions for the 10th time over

    Did he have to ask it 10 times as you were waiting for a professional reply on boards? lol


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  • #42
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Eh no. I was in A&E for 4 long fooopin days, before any treatment. I was asked the same questions by every doctor who came to see me during my time! Apparently, they can't read a foopin file!!!!!


  • #43
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    Eh no. I was in A&E for 4 long fooopin days, before any treatment. I

    What was your injury? 4 days is unacceptable without any treatment.


  • #44
    JonEBGud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭JonEBGud


    It took 2 pages to get to this.
    Poor James Reilly.


  • #45
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    What was your injury? 4 days is unacceptable without any treatment.

    It wasn't an injury. I was on a trolley in a corridor for about 48 hours but being treated medically - I would be periodically wheeled into cubicles to be examined by doctors. I was then on a trolley in an overflow area of the A&E (the old day-ward) for another 12 hours I think. They had to admit me then before they could perform the surgical procedure, so I was admitted to a ward the night before the procedure.


  • #46
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Apologies, I see where your question is coming from. I suppose by treatment, I suppose I meant 'resolution'! I was being treated and examined all the time I was on the trolley with various medications intravenously, and various examinations and scans.


  • #47
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Did you feel you were being treated by amateurs?


  • #48
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Not at all. There was a lot of duplication of information finding though! The actual dude performing the surgery came down to me beforehand and ate the head off me as I didn't tell them I had had a PE though. I had told 10 dudes before hand!!! God lord, could he not just read the f'n file? Ah no, the doctors are sound really, though the surgical team could do with acquiring some people skills! The whole system is nothing to do with doctors though!


  • #49
    JonEBGud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭JonEBGud


    Was this treatment in a Midland Hospital?


  • #50
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    JonEBGud wrote: »
    Was this treatment in a Midland Hospital?

    It was indeed.


  • #51
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    sopretty wrote: »
    Not at all. There was a lot of duplication of information finding though! The actual dude performing the surgery came down to me beforehand and ate the head off me as I didn't tell them I had had a PE though. I had told 10 dudes before hand!!! God lord, could he not just read the f'n file? Ah no, the doctors are sound really, though the surgical team could do with acquiring some people skills! The whole system is nothing to do with doctors though!

    You are talking about professional people here, if you feel they are sub standard you should have gone to the vet.


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  • #52
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WikiHow wrote: »
    You are talking about professional people here, if you feel they are sub standard you should have gone to the vet.

    In fairness, us lay people, when in pain, are kinda at the mercy of the system.


  • #53
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    WikiHow wrote: »
    You are talking about professional people here, if you feel they are sub standard you should have gone to the vet.

    Have you something against vets now with that post ?


  • #54
    JonEBGud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭JonEBGud


    sopretty wrote: »
    It was indeed.

    Name and Shame. Please.
    These so called hospitals
    are no more than First Aid Centres.
    If even that.


  • #55
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    It was Mullingar hospital.


  • #56
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    4 days in A&E would've made the news. the INMO love stories like that.


  • #57
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    sopretty wrote: »
    It was Mullingar hospital.

    Did you have no other option?
    I know that A&E is more or less county bound.
    But if you were able, why not go to Dublin,Cork or Galway?


  • #58
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    4 days in A&E would've made the news. the INMO love stories like that.

    I wouldn't have named the hospital if I wasn't quite happy that I would not be capable of being accused of making defamatory accusations, so you can rest assured, that, if Mullingar hospital wishes to question this, they'll have a hard job trying to do so! A nurse I complained to, told me to fill out a complaint form (which I didn't, like an idiot, as I wasn't in the best of form understandably!) and told me that if we as patients don't complain, they can do nothing. In the heel of the hunt, I was that delighted to get out of the cursed place, I wanted nothing to do with even thinking about it.
    I'm detached from the experience now, but at the time, I told my friend, that I was going to go mad (literally like) if they didn't put me somewhere that I could sleep. She persuaded me to stay.
    Actually, just remembering this horror of an experience (which was last year), the feckers would have me on starvation for the day, just in case I'd have to be sent for this, that or the other exam(which I never was until the fourth day). I nearly went mental with the hunger, never mind everything else!


  • #59
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    sopretty wrote: »
    Aye - he's going to pay for my flight to Florida once he gets his fellowship ;)

    He'll have a ring too I suppose.


  • #60
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    He'll have a ring too I suppose.

    Aye, the whole works. :D


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  • #61
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    sopretty wrote: »
    I wouldn't have named the hospital if I wasn't quite happy that I would not be capable of being accused of making defamatory accusations, so you can rest assured, that, if Mullingar hospital wishes to question this, they'll have a hard job trying to do so! A nurse I complained to, told me to fill out a complaint form (which I didn't, like an idiot, as I wasn't in the best of form understandably!) and told me that if we as patients don't complain, they can do nothing. In the heel of the hunt, I was that delighted to get out of the cursed place, I wanted nothing to do with even thinking about it.
    I'm detached from the experience now, but at the time, I told my friend, that I was going to go mad (literally like) if they didn't put me somewhere that I could sleep. She persuaded me to stay.
    Actually, just remembering this horror of an experience (which was last year), the feckers would have me on starvation for the day, just in case I'd have to be sent for this, that or the other exam(which I never was until the fourth day). I nearly went mental with the hunger, never mind everything else!
    Did you have Private Health Insurance?


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