{"id":1017,"date":"2022-08-11T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-treasurer-dr-elissa-abi-raad-writes-in-metro-im-a-proud-immigrant-doctor-but-paying-off-my-student-debt-feels-impossible\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T22:15:11","slug":"dauks-treasurer-dr-elissa-abi-raad-writes-in-metro-im-a-proud-immigrant-doctor-but-paying-off-my-student-debt-feels-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-treasurer-dr-elissa-abi-raad-writes-in-metro-im-a-proud-immigrant-doctor-but-paying-off-my-student-debt-feels-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s treasurer Dr Elissa Abi-Raad writes in Metro: &#8220;I&#8217;m a proud immigrant doctor, but paying off my student debt feels impossible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Elissa-bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6646\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The moment I opened my first pay cheque from working as an NHS junior doctor, I was shocked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was 25 at the time and I\u2019d moved to the UK from Lebanon to study medicine and then start my career.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My total pay came to \u00a31,800 and I couldn\u2019t believe it. My rent was \u00a3950, plus I had to pay for bills, food, furniture, medical supplies \u2013 like scrubs and stethoscopes \u2013 and my \u00a32,000 visa on top of that. How was I supposed to take care of myself?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full piece in Metro <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/06\/07\/im-an-immigrant-doctor-paying-off-my-student-debt-feels-impossible-16680863\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment I opened my first pay cheque from working as an NHS junior doctor, I was shocked.&nbsp; I was 25 at the time and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[38,575,158,487,33,42],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-dr-elissa-abi-raad","tag-metro","tag-nhs-pay","tag-press","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}