and so the uncertainty continues.

it just seems to go on and on. with no real progress, no real change and, it seems, no chance of any kind of future.

so, we were told on the 4th april that we would now have an opportunity to have an interview in our first choice deanery/specialty either based on our original choice or an amendment. not the greatest news, but i guess something at least.

i don't understand why we have to wait until 20th april to confirm our original choices or to amend our preferences. everyone had a fair idea that the review group were going to suggest something along those lines and most people i know had made their mind up before the review group even made their announcement whether they were going to change preferences or not. and that was before we even knew that our pevious interview(s) would count. so why do we have to wait so long? i admit, i am no technology boff, by any stretch of the imagination, but surely the technology can't be that hard?

morale is already so low and having to wait weeks to confirm a decision that is already made just drags out this painful process further. and then imagine, after the 23rd (the deadline for making the decision everyone has already made) the lords of mtas will have an idea how many interviews need to be organised, and it will probably take weeks to organise the interview timetables and the internet signing-up-for-interview-technology, that will all probably go wrong, there will be another delay in the interview process, a subsequent delay in the proposed allocation of jobs, ad before we know it, it's august and not only are there no junior doctors employed in the nhs, mental health services across the country eill be over-run by junior doctors needing treatment for nervous breakdowns and mtas-related psychosis.

i'm not even joking. occupational health has never had so many junior doctors through its doors. mtas is evil. it needs to be stopped here and now. before further delays, further smudges to the system, more modifications and rule changes. the whole things a distaster, and from this point: 'things can only get'...worse.

disillusioned? much.