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The long dark night of the sports medicine soul
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When I first started as a medical student on the wards, I remember very strongly the words of the professor of medicine at the time, who seemed bored with clinical medicine. I can remember very clearly wondering how one could reach this cynical and worldweary state of mind and aimed from that formative stage of my medical career to avoid this end. I look back now, some 25 years down the road, and realise that I too have developed the same attitudes and wonder whether this is just me or whether there is inevitability about our medical life journey that leads us to this particular state of grace.
This struck home for me recently where, in my home city of Melbourne, there have been two junior registrars who have committed suicide during the past 12 months. This highlights the fact that medical practitioners and others in the healthcare
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