A&E doctor: I fear the job I love will one day break me

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A&E doctor: I fear the job I love will one day break me

I’m incredibly lucky to have something that is relatively rare in this world – a job that I love. Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but it’s the truth. Equally, as a junior doctor working in A&E I must be clear that it is far from sunshine and rainbows all the time (and not just because your average emergency department won’t have any windows). It’s become increasingly difficult recently, and I genuinely fear that the job I love is evolving in ways…