I can imagine the fear. I was so scared because I taught sixth form. Your face has to fit and your behavior has to toe a certain line. It really is like living on another planet as soon as you go through that sort of airlock of the hospital doors. You're in the zone in another place. And I still, you know, I'm seven years qualified this year. I still kind of think, will I fit in at some point? But that's I think as scary as the actual clinical side of it.Yeah, I mean, all hospitals and birth centers and things are different. The place where I work does have an element of sort of macho tough talk
While we take a rest over the summer, we’re sharing some remastered episodes from Season One, chosen by listeners.
This week, I talk to Leah Hazard, NHS midwife extraordinaire and author of Hard Pushed, part memoir of Leah’s life on the labour ward, and part exploration of the current state of the profession.
Leah is as funny, wise and warm in person as she is in print, and she talks about the life-changing decision to leave her TV career and train to be a midwife, and the moment when the stress became too much during one very busy night on the ward.
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