It's a daunting prospect to change specialty, especially when already established in a career. Neil Hallows hears from three doctors delighted to have made the switch.
Five years on, doctors look back on when the pandemic hit the UK and remember the extraordinary camaraderie but also the stress and exhaustion that still hangs over the health service and many of its staff. Lessons must be learned, they say.
The NHS is a 'completely different world', where the theory of medicine is the same but the practice totally different - the words of one of three international medical graduates who told Tim Tonkin about overcoming a range of challenges - career progression, baffling acronyms and, inevitably, the weather
Kim Daybell was an elite athlete who abruptly gave up his sporting ambitions to work full-time as a doctor when the COVID pandemic struck. Five years on, he weighs up his choice with Seren Boyd
BMA Scotland survey reveals 'harsh reality' of discrimination
Paul Miller was an 'excellent' doctor who died after pressures at work led him to feel 'trapped and overwhelmed'. Ben Ireland attended his inquest and heard from family members about an intelligent, kind and modest man
They were the words of a coroner but it didn't take a legal expert to recognise the harm wrought by a system where work is intense, admissions of ill-health carry a stigma and support services are either under financial threat or non-existent. Ben Ireland reports
BMA brings High Court challenge to GMC over 'irrational' description of physician associates and anaesthesia associates
