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How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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How Do You Cope With the Stress of Being a Doctor?

There's a crisis in retention of doctors because it's so tough. Same as teaching, exactly. Because the NHS is stretched, when you weren't enjoying it you thought, well if I quit, who's going to replace me? Yeah, there's a lot of guilt about that. And there's also must be a lot of exceptional talent lost to the NHS because of the environment in which they're made to practice those talents. No one goes into teaching for the money. They don't because it's another amazing job. What you do in that classroom shapes the lives of 30-ish kids as they go off into the world. But huge, under-resourced, under-staff

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