Post 48 The 'On-duty' Rota 1968. Do consultants behave like this today?
The day after I started, I met another, more senior consultant, on the corridor.
‘I understand that you are now on the on-call rota,’ he said, pleasantly enough.
‘Yes, Sir, I am,’ I replied in a suitably deferential fashion.
time.’
Then he looked me straight in the eye. ‘Until eleven o’clock.’
This reminiscence by Dr Peter Barnes is taken from ’The Class of ‘61’ which reflects on the lives of the young men and women who joined the Manchester Medical School as ‘freshers’ in 1961. It is available from Amazon.
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