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A Consultant, as far as I am aware, is the most senior level of doctor in a hospital for a particular discipline (I.e. Consultant cardiologist, although you can have more than one for each discipline I think, the head of a team. Some doctors will never make consultant and so would presumably...

Fair enough. But the second thing I quoted was not hearsay. It was personal experience within my own family.

I read a letter in the paper a few weeks ago from the wife of a consultant cardiologist. Slightly tongue in cheek, she was saying that her husband had been out a lot one in three weekends over the last however many years saying he was working. She was asking "should I be worried?" I have a...

You do not become a junior doctor until you are qualified. And junior doctor then covers everything and everyone who is not a consultant, so it is something of a misnomer. It is in other words the vast majority of doctors working in the health service in hospitals.

The description you give makes it sound as if being a doctor is just another job, and not a VOCATION. I am confident that the vast majority of doctors are in it because they care passionately about what they do and care passionately about the people they are doing it for. The "saving the health...

I was going to say I think he might have picked the wrong fight. You have put it a whole lot better. My younger daughter is a junior doctor. She is in no way a political animal, but she is furious.