Sandcastles
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 […]
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 can feel the creaking in the system every day at work in the last few weeks. There are no spare beds. There is always a bottleneck in healthcare – […]
I have just come off a night shift, clerking in new patients on the acute medical unit, or AMU. The AMU is effectively a transient short-stay ward where new patients […]
Colleagues and friends, doctors and nurses, healthcares and radiographers – our work is intense, antisocial and emotionally draining. It’s been us against the tide of patients coming through the door, […]
Since I started A&E I have received two thank-you letters. In the previous 16 months of working as a doctor, I had never received one before. This is because one […]
So, what is it actually like to work in A&E? A few words spring to mind. It’s different, varied, unpredictable on a small scale but often similar on a large. […]
You don’t always notice how it creeps up on you. It’s hot and you’re not sleeping well, you’re tired all the time. You go out to a restaurant, and people […]
The other day was a filthy, rainy, windy morning. Lunchtime rolled around and the sun came out, and within the hour we had not one, not two, but three people […]
I moved, again, and am back in a hopsital I’ve stayed in before. I’m my own ex-next-door neighbour, if that makes any sense. And it’s weird. Firstly, the house I’m […]