Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,

The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's

Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

This is a podcast for Radio 4, but this isn't inside health, although we thought you might be

interested in it anyway.

I'm Dr Kevin Fong, and this three-part series is called Why Become a Doctor?

This episode two, All Work and No Play, asks about the work-life balance of today's junior doctors.

Day our NHS!

Day our NHS!

I do feel valued by colleagues and supervisors and within the organisation at a local level

but at a national level at government level I feel very undervalued and undermined I, to a certain extent.

And I would have happily gone on as we were, just, you know, working more than I should,

not getting paid as much as I could do, because that's the job.

But now I've taken a step back and thought, you know, why am I doing this as a 26-year-old in my prime?

If there's an emergency or a patient who's passing away or anything like that, doctors

stay on and they don't get paid for those hours, they don't ask to be paid for those hours.

We're now self-reflecting saying, why shall I do this?

It's really challenging our own core values of what we believe in and how much we can give without getting anything back.

The NHS works very much on goodwill,

and I think there is an air within the NHS of that goodwill beginning to run out.

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