Five Things About Nights
1. The night team is the priority. 2. Sleep is fickle. The night team do not get much, so help in any way you can. For healthcare staff, this means […]
1. The night team is the priority. 2. Sleep is fickle. The night team do not get much, so help in any way you can. For healthcare staff, this means […]
Today is Monday, and I am going to work. Of course, to me it feels like some kind of half-saturday – my sixth day at work since last Wednesday. I […]
Ever built a sandcastle, only to find that the tide is coming in? I’ll bet most of you have, and I’ll double-bet that you’ve tried to delay the inevitable by […]
…I passed MRCP part 1! This means that my estimated expenditure on exams as per this post remains on track, and I don’t need to do any revision until April […]
It’s great to come home and be able to vent to someone who gets your job, who understands the agonizing frustration of playing specialty tennis in ED or the why […]
Tenuous title, I know. Couldn’t resist. I work quite a few weekends. Nowhere near as many as I did previously on A&E, when I was in every other weekend, no […]
Glaborous rock and silent halls Roaring thunder from untold deeps where under earth there mystery sleeps and to you from the depths it calls Voids unchanged for scores of years […]
I’ve felt more permutations of opinion towards my now not-so-new commute than I’d care to admit. Before moving on to my new hospital I lived less than a mile down […]
There is something about the end of a set of nights, a heady euphoria resulting from the combination of sleep deprivation and sunlight shining in sun-starved eyes. It’s partly satisfaction, […]
I am typing softly, gently depressing the keys, taking extra care with the space bar as it is the loudest individual on the keyboard. I am wired for sound – […]