Lost in Academia

Things have been a little quite on the blog-front recently. I’ve just started a PhD which has posed a bit of a problem with the blog. You see keeping the blog secret is a fairly  big deal because it’s important to me that I’m stealth. Which means that I can’t post too much information about my job.

There were lots of medical SHOs, so the fact that one of them was trans didn’t mean I was likely to be indentified. When I was a registrar in a big speciality – that was also being one of a large number  but it still didn’t mean that I was identifable. But now I’m out of programme doing research that means that I’m much more identifiable. There just aren’t that many of us in our speciality doing research.

So I’ve decided to remove any information about which medical speciality I’m in. Now all you can find out about my job is that I’m a doctor who is doing a PhD. That means I can post a bit more freely about work, and work is far more interesting that the fact I changed sex 10 years ago. Of course I can’t publish exactly what I’m researching, or what conference I’m going to.

I’ve also updated my links, so that I now link to most of the people who comment. I hope that’s ok with everyone.

Research

And so I’m off to PhD – land.

It’s been a week now of my new  life, it’s it’s very strange. There are no dying people. I am scared of everyone here, including my boss who just manifests behind me sliently with an idea I am in awe of. I thought I would have more time but I don’t.

I will keep y’all posted.