Comments on: You may say i am mentally ill. I couldn’t possibly comment.

By: sally

sally — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:14:40 +0000

http://sallyll1000.wordpress.com/2004/10/07/did-you-see-the-news-prof-david-southall-our-daughters-paediatrician/

By: sally

sally — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:14:19 +0000

spamming you now, unintentionally. This may be better than the second one.

By: sally

sally — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:11:30 +0000

In more detail: http://sallyll1000.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/why-peak-practice-sent-shivers-through-my-spine-and-those-old-programmes-with-starchy-matrons-and-subservient-patients-calling-the-doctor-doctor-and-apologising-with-their-full-body-language-for/

By: sally

sally — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:08:25 +0000

Hi Maddy,
I have a parallel experience I blogged about in response to Paula Rothermel’s memorandum. see here http://salamanda.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/evidence-to-the-select-committe-published/

((()))
Sally

By: merry

merry — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:07:21 +0000

Dear Sarah, i am really sorry that your career is that hard on you. As one of my very closest friends is a hospital consultant dealing with the lives of women and babies every day of her life, i can only sympathise with you as i do with her. But i presume that you, like her, choose not to leave it behind – i could never do her job because it would break me – but she does and for all it sometimes seems to break her too, she goes back and back because the job she loves and is good at and makes a difference doing, means so much to her.

When i was running the business full time as well as HEing, i frequently came to bits trying to juggle everything – it just seemed impossible. So i had to stop – and was lucky to be able to do so but before i knew that was going to work out, i had decided to shut down the thing i had worked so hard on because it was beyond me.

Parenting is different – i am bitterly, bitterly afraid that this thing i do which i love and which i invest my heart and soul in, every day and minute of my life without break or respite, whether my children are nice to me and appreciate me or not, might get taken away from me – purely because people fear my choice to try and do it well, full time and without interference. This is my career now and it is my right, my duty and my responsibility to do it and do it well and i ask for nothing in return. But what i get is smears of abuse, criticism and a suggestion i need to be inspected and moderated for wanting to do it and that there is something intrinsically odd with me for wanting it to be as it is.