by Anonymous | 9th Mar 2021 | Humanity, Patient Stories
Grandparents. I used to worry I would be sacked over mine. For many years I had seven of them, and was terrified some of them would die at once and my employers would claim I was making up their funerals to get out of work. Most grown adults have no more than four and...
by Anonymous | 11th Feb 2020 | Clinician Stories
I stopped dead in my tracks when he couldn’t lift his head off the pillow. The smile of greeting was the same but I knew something was very wrong at his inability to raise up to meet me. For a moment time stopped and I froze. Not now? This was quick. Oh no! The last...
by Anonymous | 4th Feb 2020 | Clinician Stories, Humanity
She lay mostly silent and still, the occasional grimace the only indication of moments of intense pain and maybe fear. The freshly pressed, stark white bed sheet allowed little contrast against her cold skin; all colour had drained from her face and her arm...
by Anonymous | 5th Jul 2019 | Clinician Stories, Grief
“I’m not ready to go yet.” The words were barely understandable through the sobs, but the feeling and power with which they were spoken was immense. My patient was in her 30’s and had been admitted through the Emergency Department to the surgical ward I...
by Anonymous | 23rd Apr 2019 | Clinician Stories
We had a fifty one year old gentleman with NASH (non alcoholic steatohepatitis) who had presented with haematemesis on our ITU outreach list on the previous Friday with a litre of haematemesis witnessed in A&E. There was no gastro on call over the weekend so he...
