This is the beautiful Bupa Crombwell Hospital, a private practice in Kensington, London. I passed it daily for two weeks whilst I was doing my work experience in Slough and I’m totally in love with it!
The Hospital boasts state of the art diagnostic equipment and is internationally renowned for it’s speciality centres which include the; Heart, Lung, Orthopaedic, Paediatric and Women’s Health Centres. The hospital also offers hotel accommodation for patients, ensuring a comfortable environment. This level of hospitality even won the Laing & Buisson Hotel Services Award in 2009. This is certainly the cream of the crop among hospitals.
Now I know working privately is no easy thing to accomplish having to fend off extremely fierce competition and all, but let’s just take a look at the path I’ll have to take. So the obvious would be the Med School, Foundation Training then Specialisation which is the norm. Next would be to continue training in my chosen field in order to eventually become a Consultant in said field (by the way, all of this is with the hopes of having landed placements at top teaching hospitals). Even after becoming a consultant I’ll need to develop myself into a leading member in my field of speciality. I’ll also have to develop myself as a caring, respectful, ethical, enabling and dedicated physician. All in order to get a foot into the door of my dream work place. Simples right? Well what’s a dream if it’s not grand.
Addabee x
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