The Importance of Leadership Responsibility Management in the Armed Forces

If you do F1 and F2 in the military, you then get taken out of the NHS. The one thing that you learn relatively early on in your medical career as an armed forces doctor is leadership responsibility management. You're actually going to be doing triage most of the time if there's a lot of casualties in a war fighting situation. It can be a bit jarring coming back to NHS practice. I know I struggled as an ST-1,. having come from my time on submarines and effectively being in charge to then being treated as the lowly ST-1 who clearly knows nothing.