So I'm a qualified and practising doctor. I'm a GP. I'm 2 yrs older than Hazel and have been qualified for 10 yrs now.
Tbh it irks me. She is entitled to use doctor as she gained the title and people do for example retired doctors, but I feel her page is misleading as she uses the word medic. She only did 2 yrs formal training after medical school and then did her locum shifts on the wards.
A lot of my friends don't actually know who she is though, I feel like maybe younger doctors would but I'm not sure!
But I don't like that when she was doing a non training junior doc job, she was acting like she was the main decision maker etc and glamourising medicine. Of course all doctors work in a team and everyone is important but she didn't talk about her team...and in hospital medicine that just doesn't work. I do wonder what her colleagues thought of her, acting like a consultant when she has none of that experience etc.
I know a lot of people hate GPs now but to be honest it's the NHS which is a broken system, not us. Due to burn out and pressures, many GPs are leaving, it's a hard job even though people think it's easy and it's isolating. I work 12 hr days and have x3 meals at work in front of my computer and during the pandemic she didn't make me good about myself at all. I blocked her for years. Only in the last few months did I unblock her for my mental health.
(Apologies for the last paragraph if I went off on one).
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Yes you do but as
@mammer8 said, she is registered with no license. So it seems to me lkle she must be paying the annual GMC retention fee but doesn't do any work.